John Ruane is an author and journalist. He has written for the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, and Atlanta-Journal Constitution. He is a crit¬ically-acclaimed author of five books, including The Earl Campbell Story (ECW Press, 1999) and Parish the Thought (Simon & Schuster, 2008). A Dangerous Freedom is his first thriller novel, published by Permuted Press, and the beginning of the Dylan Reilly series. John is a graduate of Chicago State University where he was an English major, wrote a column for the school newspaper, played center on two college hockey championship teams and was the number one starting pitcher on the Cougars baseball team. Later, he volunteered his time to coaching fifty-two youth sports teams over a seventeen-year period. John and Charlotte are proud parents of their four adult children and three grandchildren.