Patrick E. Kennon is retired after serving 25 years in the Central Intelligence Agency. Before joining the CIA, Mr. Kennon worked as an interpreter during the Hungarian Revolution ...view morePatrick E. Kennon is retired after serving 25 years in the Central Intelligence Agency. Before joining the CIA, Mr. Kennon worked as an interpreter during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, as an oilman in Argentina, and as a sailor in the Caribbean. Mr. Kennon is the author of two nonfiction works, Twilight of Democracy and Tribe and Empire. Although Mr. Kennon published short fiction in Esquire magazine in the 1950s, this is his first book-length work in the genre.
Mr. Kennon lives in Falls Church, Virginia.view less