Jerome Sanford

About the Author

Jerry Sanford joined the United States Attorney's Offi ce in Miami in 1975 and was chief of the Terrorist Unit and the Narcotics Conspiracy Section. He later became the Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Gainesville Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida. As an adjunct instructor at Florida International University, he taught the course International Terrorism. He has been a member of the Mystery Writers of America since 1986 and served as a member of the board of directors of the MWA Florida Chapter for four years. He is also a member of the International Thriller Writers.

Jerry's first novel, Miami Heat (St. Martin's Press), is a spy thriller about an FBI counterintelligence agent who foils a Russian plot to assassinate Fidel Castro.