T. A. Stone is a confidant to Jonathan Kraag and the author of CLOSE TO HOME. His previously published works include KRIEGSPIEL (Lyford Books/Presidio Press), a NY Times Review of Books acclaimed techno thriller. He is a member of the Author's Guild, Mystery Writers of America, and the Society for Technical Communication, the National Writers' Union, and a graduate of his local Citizens Police Academy.

When not writing fiction, Stone writes marketing communications materials for a major telecommunications manufacturer and teaches creative writing and American literature at a local community college.

Stone is a former Army Airborne/Ranger Infantry officer whose military assignments included duty as an Assistant Professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has his undergraduate degree from Indiana University and his MA in English from Northwestern University. He lives with his family in a perfectly normal suburb outside Chicago, IL.