James R. Benn (born September 5, 1949) is an American author, best known for the Billy Boyle World War II Mystery Series.
Calling on family connections they arrange for Billy to be assigned to the staff of a cousin's husband, a little-known Army officer named Dwight D. Eisenhower.
“Uncle Ike”, as he is called in private, is soon promoted and takes Boyle with him as a staff investigator to solve crimes that require not only professionalism but discretion.
As an Irish-American whose family is sympathetic to the Republican cause, Billy struggles to remain impartial as he investigates the various factions on both sides of the Catholic-Protestant divide.
"—Publishers Weekly Benn has also written two stand-alone novels set during and after World War II - On Desperate Ground and Souvenir.