Mark McMillin

Born in 1954 in Indiana, Mark McMillin received a B.A. degree in History from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York. While at Canisius, Mark enrolled in Canisius’s nationally recognized ROTC program and focused his studies mostly on military history, After he graduated in 1976, Mark was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army and was stationed in Germany where he and served with the elite 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.

In 1986, Mark received his J.D. degree from The John Marshal Law School in Chicago, Illinois and began his legal career with a law firm in White Plains, New York focusing on general corporate law. In 1994, Mark moved to Virginia, and ventured out into hazardous world of litigation. In 1999, Mark won one of the largest, longest, federal criminal trials in Virginia’s history. Mark thereafter moved to Georgia where he resumed his general corporate practice and served as general counsel for several companies, including a $1B publicly-traded airline.

Mark has been a life-long student of military history. He also has always had a passion for reading and love for writing and wanted to someday write his own book. But write a book about what? Mark had no desire to write about some subject that 100 authors before him had already written about. And then one day, almost by accident, this fascinating, little known story of Luke Ryan fell into his lap. It was an opportunity was too good to pass on and so Mark began researching and writing. The twelve year project ended in 2011 with Gather the Shadowmen (The Lords of the Ocean), Prince of the Atlantic and Napoleon’s Gold.

Mark and his wife Rebecca currently live near Atlanta, Georgia with Rebecca’s two children, Blake and Maddie.

For more information, please visit www.PrivateerLukeRyan.com.