Andrew Scott Jackson grew up in a small town south of Atlanta and earned a degree from the University of Georgia. After graduation, and with no real direction other than wanting to learn how to sail and see the Caribbean, he bought an open-ended ticket to St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, walked the docks, and got a job as a deckhand on a 78' Rhodes Ketch charter boat. That experience and the people he met along the way cemented a lifelong interest in writing. He returned to the States, joined the Navy to learn how to fly, went through Aviation Officer Candidate School, and flew the P-3C Orion during the last Cold War with the Russians. His deployments covered the globe, including the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, Eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, and Iceland, prosecuting Russian submarines and keeping tabs on Soviet Battle Groups.

He retired from the Navy in 2006 while concurrently flying for a major U.S. Airline as an International Captain. He enjoys writing about exceptional people with real flaws and dreams thrown into extraordinary situations requiring a baptism by fire to survive and succeed. When not writing, his passions include salt and freshwater fishing, hunting, and improving his tree and wildlife habitat farm in Georgia, where he lives.