Mae Ness Ryan

Mae Ryan, just five days before she died of cancer in January of 2009, had given final approval for the publishing of the story of her life, "A Woman Ahead of Her Time".

Before she died, she was able to tell her life story - from her childhood days, to her experiences at the Nuremberg Trials with OSS, to her continued work with the CIA, to her many years as a mother and as a wife to Pat Ryan, an air force attaché, to her retirement years in Melbourne, Florida - all creating a journey she would never forget.

"It's a Hollywood scriptwriter's dream --- she finds herself a player on the world stage of the intelligence community. Fiction, you say? No .. Reality." L.A. Davis, Florida Today, 1993.

Her husband, Pat Ryan, is currently writing his own memoirs called The Last Mission. Mae and Pat's books will be released as a set and will soon be available at Amazon.com,