Author Paul Levine graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from Penn State University and with a law degree from the University of Miami. Before becoming a full-time author, he worked as a newspaper reporter for the Miami Herald and was a trial lawyer and eventual partner at Morgan, Lewis and Bockius. He writes the Jake Lassiter series and the Solomon vs. Lord series. He won the John D. MacDonald Award for fiction for the Jake Lassiter series. He is also a screenwriter. He co-created and co-executive produced the television series First Monday and wrote more than 20 episodes for the television series JAG.