Mark Wilder is a retired U.S. Army First Sergeant and Abrams Tank Commander who spent part of his military career patrolling the border traces of the inner German frontier during the Cold War. His boots have touched ground across Germany, Japan, the U.S., and Australia - but today he writes while he also pursues his passion for gardening. An enthusiast of modern warfare fiction, geopolitics, and the spycraft that shaped a generation, Wilder draws inspiration from the sharp realism of Clancy, Coyle, Ludlum, and DeMille. 2 A.M. marks the explosive beginning of The Flying Dutchman series - born from Cold War memory, battlefield precision, and the soundtrack of a world that never truly stood down.