Ronald Oliver

Ronald Oliver is a former award-winning national security analyst who served with the National Security Agency and the United States military. During the Cold War he tracked high-value targets and military operations across multiple theaters, work that could not be discussed then and can only be fictionalized now. That experience gives his novels their realism, their urgency, and their tactical precision.

He writes military-espionage thrillers rooted in history, intelligence tradecraft, and the unseen wars fought beneath the surface of public life: stories where loyalty is tested, truth is weaponized, and survival comes down to what a man is willing to protect. His fiction lives at the collision of old bloodlines and modern warfare, where the past is never buried as deeply as men believe, and some families inherit far more than a name.

Return of the Black Flag is the first novel in the Black Flag series. The Strykers return in Revenge of the Black Flag.