Ryan Schow

Ryan Schow is the USA Today best-selling author of the Popluation Zero trilogy, These Times of Abandon, Dark Days of the After, The Age of Embers, The Last War, and Swann, as well as the Atlas Hargrove series (writing as R.B. Schow). As a real life second-degree black belt and adrenaline junky, he's drawn to books, movies and TV featuring gritty, capable characters who are admirable but flawed, and eventually willing and able to go knuckle-to-knuckle with the most formidable of adversaries.

That said, the best characters are always rich with personality, but struggling under the weight of some internal strife. Sprinkle in some chaos and muddy the waters between right and wrong, and to him you have a compelling tale. To Ryan, these kinds of impossible circumstances make for the best stories, and this is reflected in both his characters and the content of his novels.

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