About the Author

THOMAS R. HARGROVE lectures on his experiences for private security firms, insurers, antiterrorism and law enforcement agencies, the military, and speaks for business, professional, and civic groups. His story has been featured on 60 Minutes, 20/20, the Discovery Channel, the BBC, and in Vanity Fair. Hargrove is also the author of A Dragon Lives Forever: War and Rice in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. He lives in Florence, Alabama.