Richard Phillips graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1979 and qualified as an Army Ranger, serving as an officer in the US Army. He earned a master’s degree in physics from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1989, completed his thesis work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, then worked as a research associate at Lawrence Livermore. He lives with his wife, Carol, in Phoenix, where he writes science fiction thrillers. |