
He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Paul Davis has been a student of crime since he was a 12-year-old aspiring writer growing up in South Philadelphia. He has interviewed police commissioners and chiefs, FBI, DEA, HSI and other federal special agents, prosecutors, public officials, WWII UDT frogmen, Navy SEALs, Army Delta operators, Israeli commandos, military intelligence officers, Scotland Yard detectives, CIA officers, former KGB officers, film and TV actors, writers and producers, journalists, novelists and true crime authors, gamblers, outlaw bikers, and Cosa Nostra organized crime bosses.

As a writer, he has attended police academy training, gone out on patrol with police officers, accompanied detectives as they worked cases, accompanied narcotics officers on drug raids, observed criminal court proceedings, visited jails and prisons, and covered street riots, mob wars and murder investigations.

His work has also appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Weekly and other publications. Paul Davis' crime fiction appears in American Crime Magazine. He is also a regular contributor to Counterterrorism magazine and writes their online 'Threatcon' column. His 'On Crime' column appears in the Washington Times and his 'Crime Beat' column appears here. He has written extensively about organized crime, cybercrime, street crime, white collar crime, crime fiction, crime prevention, espionage and terrorism.
