ABOUT THE AUTHOR
In 1965, Rick Bennett graduated from Andover one year behind George W. Bush. He then majored in mathematics, not quite graduating from Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Over the next few years, his career went from computer wizard to inventor to advertising hired gun. While his one-man ad agency helped make Larry Ellison the world's richest man -- taking Oracle from $15 million in 1984 to sales of over $1 billion in 1990 -- his real passion centered on this novel. Inventor of the Hagoth voice stress analyzer, 1976 saw Bennett featured in stories everywhere from Business Week and The Wall Street Journal to guest appearances on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today and Tomorrow With Tom Snyder shows, and PBS's McNeil-Lehrer Report. Then in 1978, at the urging of friend and novelist Frank Herbert (Dune), Bennett sold his company and ran for Congress. He got creamed and found work in advertising. He learned guerrilla warfare from Tony Schwartz, whose Daisy ad destroyed Barry Goldwater. Bennett was introduced to Schwartz by Dick Morris, with whom he worked to pass the 1979 Massachusetts tax-limitation initiative (Morris subsequently achieved the singular fame of making the cover of Time Magazine on two consecutive weeks--9/2/96 and 9/9/96--first as "the man who has Clinton's ear" and then under less favorable circumstances). Bennett's work for Oracle and numerous other high-tech companies gave him the luxury to take the next twenty years crafting Destroying Angel. He and his wife Rita live in Sandy, Utah.
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