Jack Samson, longtime CBS editor and wire-service foreign correspondent, is the author of fifteen previous books. He served with Chennault’s Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force in China as a navigator and later returned to Asia, where he worked in public relations for the general’s civilian airline, CAT. A private pilot, Samson is official historian of the Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force Association. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Patrick F. McManus divides his time between Spokane, Washington, and Idaho.