THE AUTHOR: JOHN A. GUTHRIE

Born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming, Guthrie has lived and worked in 23 countries. An honors graduate of USC in Los Angeles, this award-winning writer/producer (Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' first-ever Eric Sevareid Award) has worked on classified naval nuclear weapon and tank fire-control simulation systems. His knowledge of military hypersonics caused him to be protected for 10 months during the Cold War from a foreign intelligence service after the Justice Department FISA court ruled the protection was needed and assigned FBI counter-intel. to the task.

The fascist/corporate police state described in Edge Of Heaven was inspired by the Russian police state and also by the corrupt agents of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation. "Because I have sworn on the alter of God eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the minds of men." (Thomas Jefferson)

John Guthrie is an artist whose work has sold worldwide and for fun he does high performance test and evaluation driving for makers of Ferrari and Porsche after-market systems.