Meet our author Duane De Mello. 

Duane is author of Under the Cover of Darkness

Duane De Mello is a writer, educator and former Central Intelligence Agency senior operations officer. He earned a master's degree at Stanford University and wrote his first book, "The McCarthy Era: 1950- 1954, Was American Society Threatened?" while he was a high school teacher in Cupertino, California.

After serving two tours of duty in Vietnam as a U.S. Army military intelligence adviser during 1968-70, he stayed on in Asia for two decades working as a businessman in  Hong Kong, the Philippines and Japan.