J.T. Patten

J.T. Patten, pen name of Scott Swanson (born September 1969), is an American thriller (genre) and techno-thriller novelist. https://www.fraud-magazine.com/article.aspx?id=4294989041 |title = Fraud Magazine I am a CFE|date = 2015-07-01}} His 5 published works include the Sean Havens Black Ops series that focuses on Deep State / Secret Society conspiracies and features a CIA NOC protagonist Sean Havens; and the Task Force Orange novels, published by Kensington Books, that include a character, Drake Woolf, from the previous series and focus on fictional missions of the Joint Special Operations Command's Intelligence Support Activity, a Special Access Program. Both series have techno-thriller elements such as SIGINT, mass surveillance, and covert operations themes and settings around Patten's Chicago hometown. He has also written dozens of military and intelligence themed articles.
== History and Education ==
Patten, in true name of Scott Swanson, worked for the government intelligence and military special operations community prior to becoming a writer. 
He has a Bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages from Illinois State University, a Masters in Strategic intelligence from the American Military University, a post-graduate degree in Counter Terrorism from the University of St Andrews Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), and subject matter certifications in intelligence analysis, cyber forensics and counterintelligence, mobile device tracing, and financial crime investigations.
Professionally, he is experienced in cyber Insider threat detection and financial crime, corporate intelligence, and military intelligence community for Irregular and Unconventional Warfare strategies in counterterrorism, intelligence collection, and social network disruption (See Special Operations Writings).
His subject matter focus within the intelligence community included Irregular Warfare, specifically focusing on Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Qods Force. Swanson, and referenced as Patten in some published works, working with former Delta Force deputy commander Major General David L. Grange and co-authoring published articles, to include Assessing and Targeting Illicit Funding.
As "Patten", Swanson collaborated with Fox News coverage of the El Chapo drug lord trials providing commentary about criminal cartel behaviors, patterns, and influence in Mexico. 
== Special Operations Writings ==
Patten, who first enrolled within the Army Reserve Officer Training Corp (ROTC) in college, started writing classified intelligence analysis regarding disrupting human factors and social networks to defeat Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq and creating a model used across the Intelligence Community for Social Media monitoring and disruption. 
His contributions are cited across military studies and academia to include the Air Command and Staff College, USMC Command and Staff College, Naval Postgraduate College, Joint Special Operations University, United States Army Command and General Staff College|U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (SAMS and SOF Studies)https://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/cgsc/SAMS/media, U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection, U.S. Army Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, and the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School|U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School ("SWCS").http://publications.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/2377.pdfhttps://www.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F26201947&usg=AOvVaw15l3EgnQdUVHjXni6qPEFthttp://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a580153.pdfhttp://nsiteam.com/social/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/The-Human-Domain-The-Unconventional-Collection-and-Analysis-Challenge-Workshop.pdfhttp://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a603813.pdfhttps://bawarketabtoon.com/data0/books/5a82b608e6c5c/pdf/Steve_Coll-Directorate_S__The_C_I_A_and_America_s_Secret_Wars_in_Afghanistan_and_Pakistan.2018_1_.pdfhttp://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1563541/1/Morgan_1-s2.0-S0379073817302359-main.pdfhttps://pure.uvt.nl/portal/files/1353218/thesis_Lindelauf_20_09_final2.pdf
Adding to the themes of Irregular Warfare, Intelligence, and Cyber/Surveillance within his novels, he has experience and has written or collaborated with other notable authors and authorities affiliated with special activities and special mission units in the following articles and white papers of Intelligence and Special Operations activitieshttps://chicagoinfragard.org/about-us/officers-bios/: Cyber Threat Indications & Warning: Predict, Identify, and Counter., Enhancing Red Team Performance: Driving Measurable Value and Qualilty Outcomes with Process Improvement, Operationalizing Intelligence with Lieutenant General William G. Boykin|William Boykinhttps://www.army.mil/article/9045/operationalizing_intelligence Operationalizing Intelligence Winning Damaged Hearts and Minds with Major General David L. Grange Confronting Iran: Securing Iraq's Borders, an Irregular Warfare Concept with Major General David L. Grange, American Special Forces Sergeant Major and Central Intelligence Agency Paramilitary Operations Officer Billy Waugh, and former OSS officer and retired Major General John K. Singlaub, Viral Targeting of the IED Social Network System, Know Your Enemy: Human Intelligence Key to SOF Missions, Special Warfare Magazine, and Third Party Combatants as a Tool of Terrorism.
==Fictional Themes==
J.T. Patten's fictional works are within the same Thriller (genre)|thriller and techno-thriller genre as published authors Dalton Fury, Ralph Peters, Dan Brown, Tom Clancy, Brad Thor, Mark Greaney (novelist)|Mark Greaney, and Brad Taylor, with Patten's being described by Fury in a book blurb as "blacker than black" due to many of Patten's characters created with dark and brooding anti-social behaviors, and many characterized as having Posttraumatic stress disorder from repeated high-stress overseas deployments. Patten's writing style is contrary to traditional protagonists in his literary character arc highlighting changes based on fallibility, failed family balance, psychological trauma, and moments of self-doubt. 
His Sean Havens series is being re-released after acquisition from Force Poseidon Publishing. He is also listed as a List_of_techno-thriller_novels|techno-thriller novelist.
==Novels==
*Shadow Masters, a Sean Havens thriller, is the premier of Patten's black ops thriller series. The book highlights a conspiracy driven by The Pond (intelligence organization). First Edition published in 2014 by Escape Your Reality Press. Second Edition Shadow Masters Reloaded published July 4, 2021 by Force Poseidon Publishing.
*Primed Charge is the second Sean Havens Black Ops thriller. The book continues conspiratorial elements of Illuminati and New World Order with an antagonist originating from a secretive P2 underground criminal organization with links to Opus Dei
*Presidential Retreat, the third and final book in the series, involves the UKSF E Squadron, known as The Increment that worked with MI-6. First Edition published by Escape Your Reality Press in 2016. Second edition to be published in 2022 by Force Poseidon.
*Buried in Black, a Task Force Orange novel, is the first in the Kensington Books published spy-fi techno-thriller series focused on The Intelligence Support Activity
*The Presence of Evil is the second book in the Task Force Orange novel series, published by Kensington on August 20, 2019.
 
Category:1969 births
Category:American novelists
Category:American intelligence analysts