Don Brown (author)
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Don Brown speaking at the Israeli 911 Memorial, Jerusalem, Israel on March 21, 2016
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June 3, 1960 Plymouth, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author; Attorney; Former Naval Officer |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Notable works | Treason, Black Sea Affair, Malacca Conspiracy, Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six |
| Children | Mary Claire Brown, Caroline Mitchell Brown, Graham Hardison Brown |
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Donald Mitchell Brown, Jr. (born June 3, 1960) is an American author of eleven published novels, and two significant military works of non-fiction, including Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six, and The Last Figher Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II. He is perhaps best known for his bestselling novel, Treason released by Zondervan Publishing Company in 2005, and by his non-fiction military expose, Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six, released by Rowman & Littlefiled Publishing Company in 2015. Treason explored the issues and dangers of radical Islamic infiltration in the US military.Call Sign Extortion 17 is a non-fiction account of the 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan of U.S.Navy SEAL Team, with Brown contending that the SEAL's deaths were caused, in part, because of "politically-correct" rules of engagement.
Born in Plymouth, North Carolina, United States, Brown is a Washington County, North Carolina native currently living in Charlotte, North Carolina, Brown received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received a Juris Doctor degree from Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law.
Brown spent five years in the U.S. Navy as an officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG). He continued his studies at the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, earning the Navy's nonresident certificate in International Law. While serving as a JAG officer in the Pentagon in 1992, Brown was published in the US Navy Law Review, drafting a legal position paper instructing United States Military Lawyers on defending against temporary injunctions filed against the military. The published article in the prestigious Naval Law Review would become Brown's very first publication. While serving as a U.S. Navy JAG officer, Brown was appointed Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of California.
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