Dan Hampton

Dan Hampton is the New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot, Lords of the Sky, and The Hunter Killers, as well as a novel, The Mercenary. During his twenty years (1986-2006) of service in the Unite States Air Force, Colonel Hampton received four Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor, a Purple Heart, eight Air Medals with Valor, five Meritorious Service medals, and numerous other citations. He is a graduate of the USAF Fighter Weapons School, USN Top Gun School (TOGS), and USAF Special Operations School. A frequent guest analyst on CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC discussing foreign affairs, military, aviation, and intelligence issues, he has published in Aviation History, Airpower, the Journal of Electronic Defense, Air Force Magazine, Vietnam magazine, and Dartmouth College's Clamantis literary journal, and written several classified tactical works for the USAF Weapons Review.