Carr, Jack (Joint pseudonym)

found: e-mail 2017-09-14 fr. L. Jones, Atria/Emily Bestler Books:("This is indeed the first novel for this author. Jack Carr is actually a pen name. . . . the pen name is shared by the two authors. They don't reside in the same city, but we're assigning one of their hometowns to the Jack Carr pen name for simplicity. He lives in Park City, Utah")

found: Mystery people website, interview with Jack Carr, via WWW, 31 October 2018:(Chose pen name based on advise from Lee Child. Writing partner is Keith Wood)

found: Simon and Schuster website, via WWW, 31 October 2018:(Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL who led special operations teams as a Team Leader, Platoon Commander, Troop Commander, and Task Unit Commander. Over his twenty years in Naval Special Warfare he transitioned from an enlisted SEAL sniper to a junior officer leading assault and sniper teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, to a platoon commander practicing counterinsurgency in the southern Philippines, to commanding a Special Operations Task Unit in the most Iranian influenced section of southern Iraq throughout the tumultuous drawdown of US Forces. Jack retired from active duty in 2016 and lives with his wife and three children in Park City, Utah.)