Richard Ned Lebow is Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College and KIng's College London and Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College of the University of Cambridge. He is the author of some fifty scholarly books in the fields of international relations, comparative politics, political theory, political psychology, history, classics, and philosophy of science. His first venture into fiction is Rough Waters, a book of short stories. He is now writing crime novels featuring Inspector Rudi Khan of the Cambridge Constabulary. Lebow is married and father of three children and two grandchildren. He and his wife live in Cortona, Tuscany and Etna, New Hampshire.