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Author Don Mann is a retired Navy SEAL Team SIX member, renowned World-Class Adventure Competitor, and New York Times Best Selling Author. Mann received a Master's in Management from Troy State University, in Troy, AL, a B.S. in International Relations & Criminal Justice, from Florida State University, in Tallahassee, FL, and a B.S. in Liberal Science, from State University of New York. He lives in Cape Charles, VA. Jeff Emde is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Operations Officer (OO) who retired after 26 years of service. He spent most of his 24-year career conducting operations in Europe, North Africa, North America, the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia. An engineer by training, he focused primarily on weapons of mass destruction - specifically biological, nuclear, chemical and advance conventional weapons - and worked on other transnational issues to include counternarcotics and counterterrorism in Afghanistan. He currently resides in Arizona with his wife of 30 years.