A. Lee Dellon, MD, PhD graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, completed his Plastic Surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1978, and was a central figure in developing the specialty of Peripheral Nerve Surgery. He began the Dellon Institutes for Peripheral Nerve Surgery, and has won research prizes in Anatomy, Immunobiology, Neural Regeneration, and Treatment of Chronic Nerve Compression. He retired from surgery in 2022. He has written five surgical texts in use worldwide. THE PROSECTOR is his first novel.