F R O M M Y P E N T O Y O U
A B O U T F. J . H A R O N
A lifetime of intelligence, turned to fiction.
With sixteen years of writing behind me, I bring a lifetime of technical insight, national-security experience, and vivid personal history to suspense fiction. Raised in suburban Detroit during its reign as the Motor Capital of the World, I earned an Electrical Engineering degree from Lawrence Technological University and spent thirty years in Information Systems Technology supporting Naval and Strategic Intelligence in the Maryland–Washington, DC, area. After retiring to Southport, North Carolina, I turned a long-held dream into a second career as a novelist. A proposed deep-water port on Southport’s Cape Fear River—between a nuclear power plant and Sunny Point, a strategic arms depot—sparked my debut thriller, Revenge For What Is Sacred. Since then, I’ve continued crafting high-stakes stories shaped by unusual premises, sharp twists, and distinctive settings, including the Mace Franklyn novels Duplicity’s Child and Returning Fire, the psychological thriller One Cold Sunday, and my latest release, Faces, inspired by a familiar children's story. Can you guess which one?.
16
YEARS WRITING
30 yrs
INTELLIGENCE CARRER
Southport, NC
BASE
Electrical Eng.
DISCIPLINE
The person behind the stories.
With sixteen years of writing behind me, I bring a lifetime of technical insight, national-security experience, and vivid personal history to suspense fiction.
Raised in suburban Detroit during its reign as the Motor Capital of the World, I earned an Electrical Engineering degree from Lawrence Technological University and spent thirty years in Information Systems Technology supporting Naval and Strategic Intelligence in the Maryland–Washington, DC, area.
After retiring to Southport, North Carolina, I turned a long-held dream into a second career as a novelist. A proposed deep-water port on Southport's Cape Fear River — between a nuclear power plant and Sunny Point, a strategic arms depot — sparked my debut thriller, Revenge For What Is Sacred.
Since then, I've continued crafting high-stakes stories shaped by unusual premises, sharp twists, and distinctive settings, including the Mace Franklyn novels Duplicity's Child and Returning Fire, the psychological thriller One Cold Sunday, and my latest release, Faces, inspired by a familiar children's story. Can you guess which one?
W H O I S F. J . H A R O N
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Motor City roots
Raised in suburban Detroit during its reign as the Motor Capital of the World. An Electrical Engineering degree from Lawrence Technological University.
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Thirty years in intelligence
Information Systems Technology supporting Naval and Strategic Intelligence in the Maryland–Washington, DC area — the tradecraft behind the fiction.
03
A second career, by the Cape Fear River
Retired to Southport, North Carolina. A proposed deep-water port — between a nuclear power plant and a strategic arms depot — sparked the debut thriller.
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Sixteen years of fiction
Since then: high-stakes stories shaped by unusual premises, sharp twists, and distinctive settings — the Mace Franklyn novels, One Cold Sunday, and Faces.