Brian C. Thompson's love affair with history started at his grandmother's kitchen table, where his uncles and relatives traded war stories from World War II and Korea over coffee and cigarette smoke. Those tales lit a fire that never went out. By elementary school, he'd read every history book in the library — and when he ran out, the librarians let him pick which ones they ordered until he graduated.

That fire followed him to Southern Methodist University, where he earned a B.A. in History, and it burns through every page of A Date with Infamy. Meticulously researched and grounded in the real hardware, tactics, and politics of 1941, the novel reimagines Pearl Harbor as a trap — where America sees the attack coming and strikes first. It is the opening salvo of The American War, a five-book series that reshapes the Pacific conflict from its first shots to its final reckoning.

Brian lives in the Dallas–Fort Worth area with his wife, kids, and a dog named Voodoo who has yet to show any interest in naval strategy.

A Date with Infamy is his debut novel.

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