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.
[1] His third novel, Shadow of Betrayal, continues the adventures of freelance operative and "cleaner" Jonathan Quinn.
In the same year, he wrote the computer manufacturer's internal hardware manual.