Ronald Martin Wade, a native Texan, has been a circus acrobat, ranch hand, oil field roustabout, Golden Glover and an Air Force fighter pilot. He couriered classified equipment to a station on the Mekong River during the Viet Nam conflict, installed security procedures for the depot maintenance contract on Air Force One and ran security for a world-wide, 100-site services contracting company. He has investigated, written and spoken about the mythology of UFOs and Satanism cults. He is the author of several westerns published in the United Kingdom and the United States. In addition, he has authored a collection of short stories and a unorthodox and sometimes hilarious compilation of conversations titled the "Max Parallax," featuring exchanges with Max Gross, an atheist libertarian.