Craig O. Thompson

Award-winning author/speaker/keynoter, CRAIG O. THOMPSON, is a counter-terrorism and business disaster recovery planning consultant, and communications director for the International Association for Counterterrorism & Security Professionals. Mr. Thompson holds a B.S. and M.A. in Education from Northern Arizona University. Craig is currently working on two collaborations, two screenplays, and a television pilot. A soon-to-be-released private distribution Limited Edition biographical novel -- with a followup, larger First Edition, for national distribution -- will feature the life of Lauren F. Bruner, the Second-to-the-Last to Leave the USS Arizona, during the December 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor... after being caught in the center of a 500 foot fireball that destroyed his ship, following an explosion of one million pounds of black powder, directly underneath him. Craig Thompson's first book OMAR: A Novel was the Kindle Book Review's Grand Prize Winner -- Thriller / Mystery Category -- in the 2012 Best Indie Books Competition. He is also the recipient of the International Benjamin Franklin Awards™ Silver Award for "Best New Voice - Fiction".