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As a graduate from Indiana University with a MS in Education Administration, Patrick Sydor had a long career split between teaching in an urban high school and executive sales in the transportation industry. He currently lives on the beach in Canoa, Ecuador with his wife of forty-nine years. When asked about starting a writing career at the age of sixty-eight, he said, "After surfing at 9:00am and breakfast of eggs and bacon, what the hell else am I going to do?"

He and his wife travel extensively to bring authenticity to his historical fiction writing.