Alistair Kimble is a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation working Violent Crimes Against Children and is a team leader for the FBI's Evidence Response Team, responding to, and processing crime scenes. He's worked a variety of matters throughout his career, to include foreign counterintelligence and counterespionage. He served in the U.S. Navy where he dangled from helicopters while performing search and rescue operations as well as mission support for NASA projects such as the Mars Pathfinder, space shuttle recoveries at Edwards AFB, and X projects like the X-36 tailless fighter.

Iron Angels, an urban fantasy detective novel, co-written with Eric Flint (author of the bestselling 1632 series), was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of its top 10 science fiction, fantasy & horror picks for the fall of 2017 and was published on September 5th 2017 by Baen Books.

Alistair's short fiction can be found in the Fantastic Detectives edition of the Fiction River anthology series, edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and volumes 44 & 47 of the Grantville Gazette.