Chuck Licht­man has prac­ticed com­plex busi­ness lit­i­ga­tion for forty years. His first nov­el, The Last Inau­gu­ra­tion fea­tured the ter­ror­ist, Car­los the Jack­al, who grant­ed Licht­man his first ever inter­view. He lives in Flori­da and is active in the Jew­ish Fed­er­a­tion, and serves on the nation­al board of Secure Com­mu­ni­ty Net­work, the secu­ri­ty arm of the Jew­ish Fed­er­a­tions of North America.