Marc Cerasini is the author of more than thirty books, including the New York Times bestseller O. J. Simpson: American Hero, American Tragedy, as well as Heroes: U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor; The Future of War; and The Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. Special Ops. He wrote the USA Today bestseller AVP: Alien vs. Predator, based on the motion picture, and four original 24: Declassified novels, based on the Emmy Award–winning television series 24. With Alice Alfonsi, Cerasini coauthored the national-bestselling Coffeehouse Mysteries and Haunted Bookshop Mysteries. He helped create the Tom Clancy's Power Plays series and wrote an essay analyzing Clancy's fiction for The Tom Clancy Companion. Cerasini's technothrillers include Tom Clancy's Net Force: The Ultimate Escape and five action/adventure novels based on Toho's Studios classic Godzilla and coauthored The Official Godzilla Compendium to accompany the movies, with J.D. Lees. He lives in New York City.