Doug Swift is an author of adventure novels and an aerospace engineer experienced with a variety of military, space, and defense programs. He has engineering degrees from the United States Air Force Academy (BS), University of Southern California (MS), and Missouri University of Science and Technology (PhD).
Doug was born and raised in Oklahoma. He and his wife, Jacquelyn, currently live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest near Mt. Rainier. They are parents to eight wonderful independent children. They love adventure and enjoy hiking, traveling, playing with the kids, reading, and learning new things. They are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Doug has hiked all over the world, from the top of Half Dome to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, from the crater of Mt. Fiji to the ruins of Maachu Picchu, from the outback of Australia to Stonehenge in England, to the top of Flatiron in the Superstition Mountains. Doug has parachuted out of airplanes, shot a tank with an M72 LAW shoulder rocket, rode a camel alongside the pyramids of Giza, rode horses in the American West, elephants in Thailand, and carabao in the Philippines. He has scuba dived and snorkeled at the Great Barrier Reef, explored ruins at Angkor Wat, walked on top of the Great Wall of China, and been on safari in Africa. He has trained in Taekwondo, judo, and boxing; journeyed to the lost city of Petra, flown solo in military jet aircraft, survived POW training camp, turned off the lights at the Louvre in Paris, graduated from Army Reconnaissance Commando Training, zip-lined amid monkeys in Costa Rica, cage dived with sharks in South Africa, explored Temple Mount in Jerusalem, been lost in the jungles of the Daintree Rainforest, served as a Captain in the U.S. Air Force, flown in B-52 bombers, explored Viet Cong tunnels outside Saigon, cruised on the Nile and Yangtze Rivers, and operated mission consoles during one Space Shuttle and multiple Titan IV and Atlas rocket launches. He has researched, written, and defended a PhD dissertation on artificial intelligence. Doug and his wife served an 18 month mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints deep in the Bulacan of the Philippines. He is the author of eight novels.
