Douglas J. Wood is an award-winning author of high-concept thrillers that fuse cutting-edge technology with real-world plausibility. In addition to his Samantha Harrison political trilogy, his novels—Dark Data, Dragon on the Far Side of the Moon, Blood on the Bayou, and The Shakespeare Killer—explore the dangerous intersection of power, psychology, and innovation. His latest release, Deadly Bytes, dives into the chilling potential of artificial intelligence gone rogue. He is currently writing his ninth novel, Deadly Bytes: The Aisha Protocol.

Before transitioning to full-time writing, Wood spent more than four decades practicing law. He first built and ran his own successful practice from the ground up, and later served for more than twenty years as a senior partner at a global law firm, where he founded and led an international media and advertising law practice—an experience that informs the authenticity and tension of his fiction. He was consistently recognized among the world’s leading practitioners by Chambers, The Legal 500, The Best Lawyers in America, and Super Lawyers, and is a member of The Legal 500 Advertising Law Hall of Fame. He has also taught advertising law as an adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law and University College Cork in Ireland.

In addition to his fiction, Wood is the author of the award-winning memoir Asshole Attorney: Musings, Memories, and Missteps in a 40-Year Career and the Amazon bestseller From Dawn to Dusk: How to Build a Multimillion-Dollar Law Practice and Then Give It Away, which serves as the foundation for his consulting and speaking engagements. He is also the host of the From Dawn to Dusk podcast, where he interviews accomplished lawyers who have built significant practices and successfully transitioned to the next phase of their professional and personal lives. His other nonfiction works include Please Be Ad-Vised: A Legal Reference Guide for the Advertising Executive, now in its seventh edition and widely regarded as the “legal bible” of the advertising industry, and 101 Things I Want to Say…the Collection, a book of personal reflections and advice.

Wood lives in North Carolina with Carol Ann, his wife of 53 years. They have three grown children, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, and five cherished grandchildren.