Mike Burnette spent 26 years in the United States Air Force, retiring as a Senior Master Sergeant after a career that included two deployments. A longtime broadcaster with American Forces Radio, he spent years behind a microphone before turning from telling other people's stories to creating high-stakes stories of his own. His travels have taken him across the United States and overseas, including Cold War Europe, Berlin at the fall of the Wall, the Middle East, and Israel. His PSYCHONIX novels blend international espionage, special operations, emerging technology, intelligence tradecraft, philosophy, and faith while exploring one central question: What, exactly, is a human being?