Jeremy Baker grew up in Italy, Florida, and Maryland.  After dropping out of college at 19, he joined the US Army as a counterintelligence agent and HUMINT collector.  He is a combat veteran and PTSD survivor.  For the last 20 years he’s worked in national security, with a focus on intelligence, counterterrorism, and transnational organized crime.  He lives with his family in Maryland, where he keeps a little garden and writes about the things that keep him up at night.