Stephen Lambeth was born in Santa Monica California in 1947 and is thereby an official "Baby Boomer". He grew up loving the beaches and mountains of his home state. After a successful sales career, with last years spent as a Sales Coach for major telecom firms, he retired with his wife of 33 years to a lakeside home in the upstate of So. Carolina. An avid action/thriller reader, and having researched the spec's of the newly launched world's largest cruise ship (Oasis of the Seas), he decided to speculate on just how a major cruise line would defend against a possible terrorist attack on such a ship. The result of that speculation was the believable thriller "Death Takes A Cruise", a two and a half year project from start to finish. Steve says the most painful thing about writing the book:
"The initial agonizing thought of writing over 100 pages, and then, after the project, the agonizing task of cutting over 50 pages to bring it down to 170,000 words!"