Raelynn Hillhouse has slipped across closed borders, smuggled jewels and been recruited as a spy by two of the world’s most notorious intelligence services (they failed). The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that “she’s truly like James Bond and Indiana Jones all rolled into one.” Her widely acclaimed first novel, Rift Zone, draws from her experiences. Her next novel, Outsourced (Forge, May 2007), is about an operative who becomes a target in the multibillion-dollar War on Terror, and the only one he can trust is his ex-fiancée—who’s been hired to kill him. A former professor and Fulbright fellow, Hillhouse lives in Hawaii.