Jack Stewart is the New York Times Bestselling author of the Battle Born series (Declared Hostile 2025), the W.E.B. Griffin Presidential Agent series (Direct Action 2025), the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan, Jr. series (Pressure Depth 2026), and the co-author of the Silent Horizons series with Chad Robichaux (Riptide 2026).
Jack is a retired Navy F/A-18 fighter pilot with over two decades of service and multiple combat deployments aboard the aircraft carriers USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Enterprise, and USS Abraham Lincoln. In addition, he deployed to Afghanistan with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division as a member of a U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Control Party and to various locations as a member of a Joint Special Operations Command counterterrorism task force.
He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN), holds a Master of Science in Global Leadership from the University of San Diego, and is a current student at UCLA. He is a captain with a major U.S. airline and lives with his family in Dallas, Texas.