A World Apart: The Jake Thomas Trilogy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615725932)

Steven A. Tolle was born in Hanford, California, a farming community in the Central Valley. After high school, he attended California State University in Sacramento, graduating with a degree in International Relations. In the 90's, he served on active duty in the US Army, where he was trained as an interrogator and to speak the Lao language. He worked on the POW-MIA searches in Southeast Asia as a member of Joint Task Force-Full Accounting. After he left active service, he served in a psychological operations unit in the Reserves, deploying to Thailand and Korea to support missions there. He has served in a variety of positions with the State of California. In his career, he has been an Executive Fellow, an appointee of the Governor, as well as a civil service analyst and manager. A long-time fan of fantasy and science fiction, The Jake Thomas Trilogy is his first writing effort. He resides in Northern California with his wife, Emily.