About the author: Robert Blake Whitehill is a Maryland Eastern Shore native, and an award-winning screenwriter at the Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Hudson Valley Film Festival. He is also an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award winner for his feature script U.X.O. (UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE). He is also a contributing writer to Chesapeake Bay Magazine. DEADRISE, NITRO EXPRESS, and TAP RACK BANG are the first three novels of the Ben Blackshaw Series. Find out more about the author, his blog, upcoming releases, and the Chesapeake Bay at: www.robertblakewhitehill.com