John is the award-winning author of five published novels and one non-fiction history of his undergraduate alma mater, Stand Forever, Yielding Never; The Citadel in the 21st Century. Murder Mystery Thriller Jury of One is his sixth novel.

In addition to being an award-winning author, John is a dedicated dad and a retired lawyer, having practiced both criminal law as a prosecutor and civil law as a litigator for over forty years. A South Carolinian by birth, he grew up largely in Yorktown, Virginia. After accepting a football scholarship to The Citadel, from which he graduated in 1967, he took his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1970.