North Carolina native, Bill Brown, an entrepreneur since his UNC '63 days, was always ahead of the curve as the owner and publisher of the Carolina Financial Times, a weekly newspaper, as a co-founder of the Waffle Shoppe restaurant chain, as a principal in a commercial real estate company that developed shopping center sites across the state, and as the major shareholder and president of a company that was the forerunner in the high tech satellite imagery industry. His array of experiences have provided him with some very useful content for his novels, Money to Burn, The Feds' Folly, and Delete!, in the Jones Series.