About The Author

After a thirty-year career on Wall Street, Scott retired in 2014 to pursue a lifelong passion to write. His cybersecurity novel, Darkness is Coming, won Distinguished Favorite in the Thriller category in the NYC Big Book Award competition. Smith wrote his first two novels, The Fourth Amendment and Darkness Is Coming, under his pen name SM Smith.

In 2017, he began researching the life and times of Nathan Hale, the official hero of his adopted home state of Connecticut. The effort resulted in The Spy and the Seamstress, as well as several in-depth articles published in the prestigious Journal of the American Revolution. Two of Scott's articles were selected for inclusion in the Journal's annual compendium of its best writings.

Check out Cornell University’s profile on Scott, A Spy, a Seamstress and an ILRie.