ABOUT W R HYDE

W R Hyde spent thirty years navigating the volatile intersection of conflict, post-conflict recovery, and international development across more than fifty countries. Working within and alongside governments, intergovernmental bodies, NGOs, and the private sector — from individual country postings to regional offices to organizational headquarters — gave him something most thriller writers can only approximate: a firsthand understanding of how institutional decisions ripple outward to reshape lives and alter the course of events.

As a Senior Transition Advisor with USAID's Office of Transitional Initiatives, and through senior roles within the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, Hyde helped shape the strategic vision for some of the most consequential programs in U.S. foreign policy. At the International Organization for Migration, he served as Senior Ebola Response Coordinator during the West Africa crisis, and earlier as Chief of the Emergency Response Unit, directing global humanitarian response operations under sustained pressure. He co-authored the IOM Emergency Operations Manual and designed the organization's global Staff Security Unit — frameworks that still echo in crisis response today.

Hyde has carried that operational knowledge into the classroom, teaching graduate-level courses at American University's School of International Service, Syracuse University's Maxwell School, and Middlebury College's Monterey Institute of International Studies. His courses on complex emergencies, post-crisis stabilization, and applied humanitarian response reflect the same conviction that drives his fiction: that the most important stories from the world's hardest places are rarely the ones that make the headlines.

His novels draw on this career without flinching — the bureaucratic friction, the moral ambiguity, the moments where a single decision cascades into something no one intended. He writes about the humanitarian world from the inside.

W R Hyde lives and writes at the crossroads of history, policy, and human consequence.