Brad Huestis

Brad Huestis is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who writes the kind of military fiction only someone who has truly lived it can deliver.

Over a twenty-year career, he served as an artilleryman, paratrooper, and judge advocate, Airborne and Ranger qualified, deployed to Iraq, and awarded the Bronze Star. In 2006, as V Corps Chief of Justice in Baghdad, he prosecuted soldiers for wartime atrocities, experiences that now fuel his fiction.

His debut, Ahab: A Hockey Story (2021), won a Bronze Medal from the Military Writers Society of America and carries an endorsement from Bobby Orr. His second novel, The Big Bad (Koehler Books, 2025), is a gripping legal thriller set in the chaos of the Iraq War, longlisted for the 2025 Hemingway Award for Contemporary Wartime Fiction by Chanticleer Book Reviews.