John Young

After leaving the Army in 1972, John Young studied journalism at the University of Arizona and became a reporter at The Arizona Daily Star, covering the police beat. During the 1980s, he was a reporter for the Voice of America in Washington, D.C. and a writer for the U.S. Information Agency.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1988 to study screenwriting and worked as a private investigator. He was also a police officer in New Mexico and a private investigator in New Mexico.

After the 9/11 attacks, he joined the FBI as a counter-terrorism analyst, working at the National Counter Terrorism Center from 2002 through 2004. He then joined the Defense Intelligence Agency and became an Operations Officer. He served in Iraq with the Joint Special Operations Command in 2006 and 2008, and subsequently worked as an instructor for U.S. Army Intelligence at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.