Brett Battles is an American author and computer engineer from Los Angeles, California.
While employed at Dell Computer, Battles published his first novel, The Cleaner (2007). The novel introduced recurring character Jonathan Quinn, a freelance intelligence operative named for Liam Quinn, an executive at Dell who had served as a mentor to Battles. The Cleaner was nominated for the Barry Award for Best Thriller.
His second novel, The Deceived (2008), won the Barry Award for Best Thriller.
His third novel, Shadow of Betrayal, continues the adventures of freelance operative and "cleaner" Jonathan Quinn. Shadow of Betrayal was published in the United Kingdom under the title The Unwanted (Preface Publishing, 2009).
This fourth novel, The Silenced, was released by Dell in 2011. In the same year, he wrote the computer manufacturer's internal hardware manual.
Note: In the US, The Unwanted was sold under the title Shadow of Betrayal.
July 10, 2011â Becoming Quinn (A Jonathan Quinn Novel): A prequel to the series