Russell Stoewe is a well-traveled, amateur historian with a passion for adventure and enjoying life. A veteran of marathons and a decade of amateur baseball, Russell graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in electrical engineering and minor in history. Following that, he earned fellowships toward a graduate degree in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the University of Central Florida. He has spent more than a decade working for NASA in systems engineering, project management, and operations at Kennedy Space Center, Florida and Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. He currently lives in Orlando, Florida. Number 181 is his first novel. Email him at [email protected]