Richard Scott Sacks is an awardwinning novelist, writer, and US diplomat, and world traveler, whose career placed him in the crosshairs of diplomacy, conflict, and political consequencecrisscrossing conflict zones in Africa, the Middle East, and the United States in his youth, then in Foreign Service postings in Pakistan, Panama, Korea, Vietnam, Morocco, Mexico, CongoZaïre, and Washington, DC.Mr. Sacks's debut novel, the critically acclaimed Drinking from the Stream, swept political thriller and action/adventure award categories, winning accolades by the dozen. His academic study with SAIS professor Riordan Roett, Paraguay: The Personalist Legacy, was named Outstanding Academic Book by Choice Magazine.A former newspaper and wire service reporter, Mr. Sacks wrote for The Miami Herald from Asunción, Paraguay, the Associated Press (Detroit, Michigan), and The Middlesex News (Framingham, Massachusetts).Mr. Sacks holds master's degrees from National War College and Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He, his wife, Aida, and their children live near Washington, DC.