Brandt Legg

USA TODAY bestselling thriller author Brandt Legg uses his real life experiences to create page-turning novels. He's traveled with CIA agents, dined with senators and congressmen, mingled with astronauts, chatted with governors and presidential candidates, had a private conversation with a Defense Secretary he won’t talk about, hung out with Oscar and Grammy winners, had drinks at the State Department, been pursued by tabloid reporters, and spent a birthday at the White House by invitation from the President of the United States.

At age eight, Brandt's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, he turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the ""Teen Tycoon,"" and by the mid-eighties, Brandt was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America. By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, the high-flying Brandt became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed, he lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties. After a year, he emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew.

More than three decades later, Brandt now uses all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Brandt’s page-turning books pulse with authenticity. His series have excited more than a million readers around the world.