Lawrence Erickson is a native of Kansas City, Missouri. He is a graduate of Central Missouri State College and served in the US Army. He has lived in Europe, The Middle East, Asia, and Australia. After spending over forty years in the construction and nuclear power industries, he retired to the Pacific Northwest. Lawrence and his wife Kate currently live in (and love) Portland, Oregon. Cloudy With a Chance of Gunfire is his fourth novel in the Nate Harver, Private Investigator Series.