Kenneth R. Sewell is a nuclear engineer and a US Navy veteran who spent five years aboard the USS Parche, a fast attack submarine that was the Navy’s most decorated ship. The USS Parche conducted a number of special operations. In addition to All Hands Down, he is the author of the New York Times bestseller Red Star Rogue, and Blind Man’s Bluff. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Jerome Preisler is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestselling Tom Clancy’s Power Plays series. His musings and reflections about baseball appear in “Deep in the Red,” a bi-weekly column that runs throughout baseball season on the New York Yankees YES Network Online. A native New Yorker, he divides his time between New York City and Maine.