In his younger years, Ron Wade, a native Texan, fought in the Golden Gloves, was an oil field roustabout, ranch hand, circus acrobat and Air Force fighter pilot.  In more serious times, he was a professional security director and associate professor of Employee and Labor Relations management at Texas A & M  University at Commerce and at Richland College in Dallas. He attended SMU and East Texas State University and holds Bachelor of Arts and MBA degrees from the latter.

Ron began his two-decade career in security during the Vietnam conflict as courier of classified weapon system components to a back-water station on the Mekong River. Later, he assisted in writing the proposal that won the Air Force One depot maintenance contract for his employer and served as program management liaison for establishing security protocol on the program. Subsequently, he became the Director of Personnel, Security and Ethics of a services contracting company where he managed an award-winning security operation, with cognizance of over 100 sites in the U. S., Mexico, the Middle East and Germany. During that time, he served as the President of the National Classification Management Society, an international association of security professionals.

After leaving industry, he was driven by his aviation and security experience to investigate claims of extraterrestrial visitation and Satanist cult activities. As a consequence, he made presentations to civic and security organizations and wrote both serious and humorous magazine articles debunking the outrageous claims made in both genres. He abandoned the field after satisfying himself that scientifically verifiable evidence that would substantiate UFOlogist or Satanist Cult claims does not exist. He then started writing western and detective fiction.  Ron still keeps in touch with the spook world through his membership in the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.