Kevin Wade Johnson is a retired thirty-year veteran of the Defense Department, both active-duty and civilian.  In the course of a career learning foreign languages, cultures, history, and more, he focused more and more on teaching effective communication, and capped off his tenure by writing The Neglected Giant: Agnes Meyer Driscoll, the award-winning, published biography of a pioneering codebreaker.  Since then he has self-published numerous novels, novellas and collections, all of which are free ebooks.  For ten years he posted thought pieces, free fiction and more at kevinwadejohnson.blogspot.com; most of these articles have been moved to ebooks.