![]() ![]() It was published in 1998 as Night Trap in the UK and Rules of Engagement in the United States. Cameron left the US military in 2000 as a lieutenant commander.Ĭhristian and Kenneth Cameron proposed their first novel while Christian was still in the Navy. ![]() After University, Cameron joined the United States Navy as an ensign, serving in VS-31 as an air intelligence officer and gaining his air observer wings before going to spend the rest of his military career as a human intelligence officer, first with NCIS and later with the DHS in Washington, DC. He attended high school at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, NY, and got an honors BA in Medieval History at the University of Rochester. His best-known work is the historical fiction series Tyrant, which by 2009 had sold over 100,000 copies.Ĭameron was born in the US, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1962, and grew up in Rochester, NY, and Iowa City, Iowa, as well as Rockport, Massachusetts. Christian, a Canadian novelist, was educated and trained as both a historian and a former career officer in the US Navy. ![]() ![]() Christian Gordon Cameron (born August 16, 1962) also writes under the pen names Miles Cameron and Gordon Kent (used for those novels written with his father, author Kenneth Cameron). ![]()
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