Robert Cooper

"FBI was my employer for seven and a half years. I worked at HQ, Wash DC; eleventh floor SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility). I was a Visual Information Specialist. Unearthly phenomena central to my debut novel — Fly in the Ointment — were taken directly from a spectacularly horrifying FBI investigation.

In the course of discharging my duties, despite the fact I was bathed in florescent light and surrounded by colleagues, on rare occasions I encountered info that raised the hairs on the back of my neck — and prompted me to take my coffee early. I was gobsmacked to learn FBI investigations occasionally meander into matters paranormal. I brushed against a classified case that still prompts me to sometimes sleep with a light burning on my nightstand. The episode was the inspiration for 'Fly in the Ointment.' The story and the characters are fictional. The supernatural event at the center of the book — sad to say — is real. It ain’t good."