Braving the Straits: The McKenna Connection: Book Three (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781537166124)

J. Kinkade is a retired intelligence officer and disabled veteran. She has been writing fiction for nearly twenty years with The Zero Line being her first publication and the first in a series of five books exploring The McKenna Connection. The Red Bridge is book three in the series. But writing wasn't always something she wanted to do; at one time, she considered working with horses as a career. She spent a summer training Pentathlon horses at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and later served as a polo groom for actor Tommy Lee Jones. But she got hooked on the novels of Robert Ludlum at an early age and decided fighting the Russians would be a better career choice. So she joined the Air Force and studied Russian at the Defense Language Institute. Eventually, she attended Johns Hopkins University where she majored in International Studies. J. Kinkade lives in Maryland with her husband Scott, a former Marine Corps aviator, two teenage boys, and her ever-growing number of rescued cats. The family, minus the cats, spends their time sailing and traveling and eating pho, of which they had plenty while visiting Hanoi.