John Elliott is a forty-four-year veteran of Israel's Mossad and the CIA's Special Operations Group. For nine of those years, he was assigned to Interpol in Lyon, France, as well as to a number of domestic law enforcement agencies and to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Ottawa, Canada. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business, an MBA, and a Doctorate of Law degree. 

Growing up in the Middle East, Europe and the United Kingdom, he is fluent in English, Gaelic, Hebrew and Hungarian, and can easily converse in both French and Italian. 

The author of twenty-seven books, he is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and has contributed his artistic endeavors to several other authors.