Captain S. Martin Shelton retired from active and reserve naval service with the rank of captain. He served in the Korean and Vietnamese Wars, and elsewhere as a combat motion- picture cameraman, photographic officer, and intelligence specialist. He has an extensive background in Far Eastern studies. Shelton earned his Master of Arts Degree (Cinema) at the University of Southern California. He concentrated his studies on communications analysis, information theory, and film scripting and production. For thirty years, he produced a host of information and documentary motion-media shows, winning over forty awards in national and international film competitions and festivals. His peers elected him a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and served as the President of the Information Film Producers of America. After retirement, he began writing and publishing historical action-adventure novels set in the Far East and Africa. On the whole, his plots focus on important, yet little remembered, historical events of the early twentieth century. His writings comprise a mélange of aviators, assassins, and adventurers. His novella titled Khartoum earned a Finalist Award in the Writer's League of Texas annual publication competition, and his novella Abyssinia earned a Finalist Award in the National INDIE Excellence Awards. Shelton has posted details of his literary work at sheltoncomm.com.