Jason B. Baker is a career military officer with an educational background in political science and national security studies. His first book, Chicago To Appomattox, was a narrative nonfiction title chronicling the impressive journey of a Civil War regiment his ancestors were in.

Jason's fiction series The Barber Brothers' Adventures, and The Vengeance of Reed Caine use his study of Civil War-era America to place exciting adventure stories and mysteries in historically accurate portrayals of the time.

Jason enjoys following the University of Illinois and Chicago sports teams, reading narrative nonfiction and historical fiction, playing golf, hunting waterfowl, and visiting museums, historical sites, battlefields, and ballparks with his family. He is an active-level member of the Western Writers of America and a Color Bearer Donor to the American Battlefield Trust. A rural Illinois native, Jason, his wife, and two young sons reside in Northern Virginia.