Peter Glick is a graduate of Williams College and of Columbia University where he completed masters and doctoral studies in French. He spent ten of the American War years in Vietnam where he worked extensively with mountain tribes and later started a construction business in Saigon. He served as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and sat as a consultant for the Economic Committee of the Vietnam Senate. He also taught at the University of Saigon. He is now retired and devotes his time to writing novels and his daily distance ocean swims in Hawaii.