Phillip Johnson is a retired analyst living in Columbia, South Carolina. A graduate of the University of South Carolina, he and his wife Louise have raised two sons and are surrounded by family and friends. He loves music and nature, follows South Carolina Gamecocks Women's basketball, smokes the best St. Louis cut ribs you've ever tasted, and really appreciates a good bourbon.After spending a career in the private sector, he now has the time to do what he really wanted to be doing all those years behind a desk, write stories of excitement and adventure.