Dan Riker is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Baltimore School of Law. He was a reporter, bureau manager, regional news editor and sales executive for United Press International, Assistant Public Relations Director at The Johns Hopkins University, Assistant Press Secretary to the Governor of Maryland, an executive at the MCI Communications Corporation, and CEO of Pocket Communications, Inc. He and his wife, Jan, now operate Basset Books LLC, (www.bassetbooks.com), a dealer in used, collectible and out-of-print books. A LIGHT NOT OF THIS WORLD was Dan's first novel. He has completed a second, SENECA POINT, and has begun work on another. He can be reached at danriker@bassetbooks.com.