He was a navigator-bombardier (now known as a weapon systems officer (WSO)) in the B-52G Stratofortress long-range heavy bomber and the FB-111A Aardvark medium range fighter-bomber.

[7] Brown has been represented by literary agent Robert Gottlieb of Trident Media Group.

[citation needed] Brown tends to stay with the same characters over a long period of time.

Brown's novels mostly center on a character named Patrick McLanahan, whose exploits as a US Air Force officer date back over 25 years.

[8] On the ground, he enjoys tennis, motorcycling, skiing, scuba diving, and ice hockey.

He was charged with creating companies in the West Indies for the purposes of receiving tax deductions from fictitious expenses.

The fictitious expenses amounted to more than $440,000, which Brown claimed on his 1998 income tax filing.