Lee Boyland

Award winning author Lee Boyland graduated from N.C. State University with a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering and a commission in the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps. After completing the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Schools he was assigned to the Defense Atomic Support Agency (DASA) in Albuquerque, NM as a member of its Nuclear Emergency Team responsible for nuclear weapons accidents including the rendering safe of armed nuclear warheads. He had access to the design details of every nuclear and thermonuclear warhead developed by the Unites States through the Mark 63 warhead. His duties took him to the Nevada Test Site on many occasions. After leaving the Army, he designed conventional and special ordnance and later demilitarized chemical weapons at Rocky Mountain Arsenal and Tooele Army Depot.

After Viet Nam, he interest shifted to hazardous waste, and he made the transition by applying aerospace combustion technology to incineration of Agent Orange. He went on to found a successful full service medical waste service company. He has started and purchased businesses, and currently writes and consults in the management of medical and special wastes in the U.S. and Asia.

Mr. Boyland is an active member of the Military Writers Society of America, the Space Coast Writers' Guild and the Blueprints Book Club.

His award winning trilogy is based upon the Clash-of-Civilizations that occurred after a successful nuclear terrorist attack on the U.S. THE RINGS OF ALLAH won the Military Writers Society of America's 2007 Silver medal for fiction, and the second book of the trilogy, BEHOLD, AN ASHEN HORSE, won MWSA's 2008 Gold medal for fiction. AMERICA REBORN, the third book of the trilogy was Branson Stars & Flags Book Awards' 2012 first place winner for general fiction.

He has started a spinoff series, the Office of Analysis and Solutions (OAS). The first book, PIRATES AND CARTELS was awarded the 2011 Silver Medal by MWSA, and Branson Stars & Flags Book Awards' 2011 first place winner for general fiction.

Lee's webpage contains details and photographs of events and weapons found in the pages of his novels.

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