Glenn Cunningham

After retiring as a Captain and paramedic from the Corpus Christi Fire Department on the Texas Gulf Coast, I spent a couple of extended tours as a Fire/Rescue contractor in Iraq. While there I used my fire, emergency medical and disaster training plus years of experience sailing and diving along the Gulf Coast and in Central America to begin crafting the tales of the Hidalgo Trust and its legacy of combating tyranny and terrorism.

The stories evolved from my interest in old pulp fiction reprints and disgust with some truly bad thrillers I read in Iraq. (Disgust boiled over when a ruggedly handsome, secret agent, British Lord sniffed out aflatoxin in his bouillabaisse; how or when the hero acquired this amazing ability, not shared by any other known person or animal was never explained.) I was determined to do better and adhere to logic and science. I also found out that logic and science get a bit bent when trying to write a novel. I can now appreciate why Robert Howard’s Conan so often found an axe or sword when backed into a corner: when in doubt hack your way out.

In order to keep myself semi-honest as far as the series staying true, I have fabricated histories for some 67 members of the family. The oldest members of the trust were born in the late 1800’s and the newest are still in diapers. I am hoping to add adventures from before WWI to the current day.

My wife, Doctor Rhonda, and I live in South Texas with Stormy, our three-legged dog, and Bootsy the cat who is completely indifferent to notoriety.Rhonda uses her PhD in Psychology as a public school psychologist and to keep me in line. I just finished the second book in the series, The Fire Drake, which is a prequel to The Hidalgo Trust. The Fire Drake takes place during World War II and introduces more of the progenitors of the Trust. It continues the After Action Report format started in the first book.