[close] Austin S. Camacho is the author of four detective novels in the Hannibal Jones series - Blood and Bone, Collateral Damage, The Troubleshooter, and Damaged Goods, plus two action thrillers, The Payback Assignment and The Orion Assignment. Active in several local writers organizations, Camacho is a past president of the Maryland Writers Association, and currently the president/founder of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Virginia Writers Club. he also teaches writing courses at Anne Arundel Community College. By day, Camacho is a public affairs specialist for the Defense Department. For more than a decade the American Forces Network carried his radio and television news reports. Camacho has settled in Springfield, Virginia with his lovely wife Denise and Princess, the Wonder Cat." [close]