THE AUTHOR

A Kalispell native and Flathead High School graduate, Bain was drafted into the Army in 1966. During the Vietnam War, he often served in the most challenging jobs — nighttime ambushes against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, convoys, and guard duty.

Bain had been forever changed by the time he returned to the U.S. in July 1968 after 13 months of active duty. It took nearly 45 years for him to be diagnosed with PTSD, but he suffered from nightmares, night sweats, hallucinations, and debilitating pain during that time.

After Bain retired from a 33-year career with the U.S. Forest Service, he worked for several years in the construction and home inspection trades and a joy-filled 15-year role playing Santa Claus at the Kalispell Center Mall.
But the nightmares and memories still haunt him when he was encouraged by one of his Veterans Affairs counselors in Kalispell to write a book about his experiences in Vietnam, in his words, his battles with his demons.
He moved to Florida to start a new life and continued his consulting with the V.A. In 2018, after three years, he self-published his first book, “You Are Never Alone,” in which he describes the three traumas during the war that have haunted him for the rest of his life.
His writing experience helped him with PTDS from the Vietnam War. He decided to write fiction, a series of novels about a Contractor with a team of assassins. He used his knowledge and experiences of computers, satellite images and is a licensed multi-engine pilot, skydiver, and scuba diver to write this series.