Scott Corey's interest in international events and love of travel has inspired him to live in West Africa, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Sicily. He has worked as a teacher, reporter, editor, public relations specialist, and feature writer for the Kansas City Star. He has ridden a camel along the Red Sea; experienced the magic of four wheeling through the Sinai desert at midnight; suffered the trauma of being tied to a table for an emergency appendectomy with no preop anesthesia; tasted such delicacies as armadillo, python, monkey, bush rat and crocodile; spent two years living in Paris and visiting Hemingway's favorite hangouts; hiked in Switzerland; skied in Austria; traveled up the Bosporus from Istanbul; experienced the dread of malaria and dysentery. And along the way he got married and had three wonderful children.