Overkill
Robert Buettner was born July 7, 1947 inManhattan, grew up inClevelandand eventually slid west toColorado. He earned a B.A. from theCollegeofWooster, with Honors in geology, then studied as a National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology at theUniversityofCincinnati, earning a Juris Doctorate. He worked in mining as a rig hand and prospector in theSonoranDesertof SouthwestTexasand the mountains ofAlaska, and worked his way through law school as a petroleum geologist. He practiced natural resources law while serving out his Army Reserve Intelligence Commission as a Captain. He has been writing fiction since 1994. When not writing, he’s run marathons, climbed mountains, snowboarded and scuba’d. He currently lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge north ofAtlantawith his family and more bikes than a grownup needs.