John "J.D." Loscher holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration and is a State of Illinois Certified Teacher. He turned to writing after serving in the United States Air Force as both enlisted airman and commissioned officer. His novel, Three Cheers for Father Donovan, along with the epic two-volume narrative, The Bolsheviks, put him at the forefront as an author of historical fiction. His novels also include The Pontchartrain Connection, The Heart of the Matter, and The Maltese Messiah. Writing under the penname of J.D. Cooper, he penned the novel Window to the Soul. The novels Coming Out of the Dark, The Black Madonna, and In the Hands of the Gods, comprise the first of the Rearchek family trilogy. The novel To Slay a Dragon is the first book of that second trilogy. Having published The Unholy Family, he is currently hard at work researching and writing, The Run for the Roses, the final book comprising that second trilogy as his next novel.