Steven Har­tov is the coau­thor of The New York Times best­seller In the Com­pa­ny of Heroes, as well as The Night Stalk­ers and The Soul of a Thief. His tril­o­gy of Israeli espi­onage nov­els, The Head of Ramadan, The Nylon Hand of God, and The Dev­il’s Shep­herd, won inter­na­tion­al acco­lades and have been trans­lat­ed into six for­eign lan­guages. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, FOX, and the His­to­ry Chan­nel’s Secret Armies. He is a for­mer Mer­chant Marine sailor, Israel Defense Forces para­troop­er, and spe­cial oper­a­tor, and Task Force Com­man­der in the New York Guard. He lives in New Jersey.