Born in Perth, Western Australia, Russel Hutchings is a former SAS Warrant Officer with over 20 years' service in the Regiment. Russel has operated in many of the world's troubled areas and most recently performed the role of military adviser providing information-collection services to a US-based company operating in Afghanistan. He has drawn on decades of experience in the SAS and within the intelligence-collection sphere to write the MANTRA-6 series with the utmost authenticity and credibility. Now retired, Russel is concentrating on a writing career in the genre of fast-paced espionage novels.