As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.

Helms served as DCI under Johnson then Nixon. Helms generally favored information gathering (whether covert or overt) and its analysis and counterintelligence but remained a skeptic about clandestine operations. In 1977 as an indirect result of earlier clandestine operations in Chile he became the only DCI convicted of misleading Congress.