In his eclectic career Blair Roberts has worked as an instrument technician, a computer programmer, an engineer, a stock market analyst, a gambler, a SCUBA diving instructor, an aquarist, a college professor, a web site developer, and as manager of a drug surveillance and interdiction organization. He is the author / co-author of several technical articles and three books, two of them westerns and the third, an adventure set in the Florida Keys. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Physics from the University of Charleston and pursued a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University. He is a member of PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors). He and his wife, Barbara, and their Siberian Husky, Apache, live and commute between homes in the Florida Keys and on the Mexican Border in Arizona.