Keith Raffel

Keith Raffel is a former senate staffer and tech entrepreneur and a current Harvard academic and writer. As counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, he worked to oversee the operations of the CIA, NSA, and other intelligence agencies. Since 2017, he has served as a resident scholar at Harvard University, teaching technology ethics. He is the bestselling author of five other thrillers: Dot Dead, Smasher, Drop By Drop, A Fine and Dangerous Season, and Temple Mount. He splits his time between his home in Palo Alto and the Harvard campus, straddling the worlds of tech, academia, and politics.