Stanley Struble is a graduate of the famed Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Boys Town, Nebraska, and holds an M.S. in anthropology from Kansas State University where he previously taught social anthropology and North American Indian courses. He is currently an adjunct professor of sociology at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. His mystery-suspense novels, Filth Eater and Sins of the Jaguar, were published in 2001 and 2003. They received critical praise from print media and notable individuals, including Lew Hunter, chairman of the UCLA Screenwriting School.