Denis Flood is a Southeast Conference (SEC) track champion and decorated former Marine, who served in Vietnam from 1967-68, was wounded, and ran for the Marine varsity cross country and track teams. In the decades since, he served as a Naval Intelligence Officer and a contractor in the Middle East. His first book, The Midnight Mile, about the combat death of his high school running partner received the prestigious West Point Alumni Association’s “Editor’s Selection” in 2009. Flood lives with his wife in southern California.