J.R. Seeger has been an archeologist, paratrooper, CIA intelligence officer and instructor for several special operations units. Seeger led multiple, small unit teams during his service including leading one of the CIA teams that infiltrated into Afghanistan after 9/11. Seeger’s CIA awards include the Intelligence Star, the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, and the George H.W. Bush Award for Counterterrorism Excellence.

Seeger is a published author with twelve novels, two short stories and thirty articles in the Intelligence Community peer reviewed journal, Studies in Intelligence. He has two in the Journal of the T.E. Lawrence Society and in 2023, he published three articles for the blog Watches of Espionage and two in the online blog for the company SpyScape.