Gary D. Henry spent over twenty years in the environmental field and another fifteen years as a Government contractor. That is where he found the desire to write. As a technical writer for many of these years, he has written countless reports regarding testing procedures and testing results presented to Government agencies. Recently, he has had the desire to write stories. This came from a short story written about Alzheimer’s disease, which claimed the life of his father, Ray Henry in early 2009. The short story was given to Leeza Gibbons at her request for her to use with a visual piece that she was planning. His first six novels being “The Westward Journey of the Nebraskan Wind,” “The Castle Dark of Upstate,” “A life Measured by the Minute” “Opulence Among Us” “The Books of James C. Patch: The Barrier”, “The Books of James C. Patch: Returning” are presently published and available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and many other online outlets. His eighth novel “Abraham Markem and the Amazing White Dog” and “Legacy of the Unsung” is presently in the publication phase and will be available soon. He is presently writing his ninth novel, the third in the Jim Patch series, to be completed in early August 2010.