Adam Sikes is a novelist, U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Silver Star recipient, and former CIA paramilitary officer who has lived and served around the world, with combat tours in the Balkans, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East. He has also operated in Central Asia, East Africa, and Europe. In addition to writing fiction, Adam co-authored Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot. Landslide is the first book in his new Mason Hackett espionage thriller series. Adam holds an M.A. in Global, International, and Comparative History from Georgetown University and resides in Southern California.