Charles J. Powell is an author, adventurer, abolitionist, and civil rights activist whose real life reads like best-selling thriller novel, from encounters with Soviet spies at the end of the cold war to his work as a bodyguard for royalty to living undercover in the War on Drugs. Powell appears on television, speaks at conferences, and writes for numerous publications on a variety of topics from human trafficking to postmodernism to terrorism. He is an alumnus of Trevecca Nazarene University as a behavioral scientist graduate.