Ron Clark Ball (born July 24, 1959) is an American
thriller
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* Thriller (genre), a broad genre of literature, film and television
** Thriller film, a film genre under the general thriller genre
Comics
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and
suspense
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novelist from
McLean, Virginia
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, and the author of ''Falcon on the Tower'' (2007), . He is also a former officer and
Naval Aviator
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Naval aviation is typically projected to a position nearer the target by way of an aircraft carrier. Carrier-base ...
who flew the
F-14 Tomcat
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and served in the United States
Navy
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during
Operation Desert Storm
Operation or Operations may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity
* Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory
* ''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Ma ...
.
In addition to fiction, Ron Clark Ball has also written and lectured extensively on the increasing threat to National Security and damage to the Aerospace and Defense Industries by cyber attack using counterfeit and cloned electronic components and microchips manufactured in China.
In 2018, Ball was tried and convicted on four felony counts and sentenced to twenty years in prison for having defrauded a physician's widow, and others, in a securities investment scheme.
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References
External links
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fictiondb author page
1959 births
Living people
American male novelists
American thriller writers
21st-century American novelists
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers
Bolles School alumni
21st-century American male writers
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