He is a Master Parachutist/Jumpmaster Qualified and graduated from the International Mountain Climbing School. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School Instructor Training Course and the Danish Royal Navy Fromandkorpset. Mayer is an honor graduate of the Special Forces Qualification Course, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School in Fort Bragg, NC. He later taught Green Beret recruits at the John F. He served as the operations officer for 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and with Special Operations Command (Special Projects) in Hawaii. He joined Special Forces and commanded a Green Berets A-Team from 1984 to 1988. In the Army, Mayer served in the infantry with the 1st Cavalry Division, later as platoon leader and a brigade recon platoon leader.

He later earned a master's degree in Education at Austin Peay State University.

There, he graduated with honors in the top 10 percent of his class, earning a BA in psychology in 1981. After high school, Mayer was accepted to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Robert John 'Bob' Mayer was born in the Bronx, New York City on October 21, 1959. He holds the distinction of being the only male author on the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll. He has written under the pen names Joe Dalton, Robert Doherty, Greg Donegan, and Bob McGuire. Mayer has authored over 60 novels in multiple genres, selling more than 4 million books, including the #1 series Area 51, Atlantis, and The Green Berets. He is a West Point graduate and former Green Beret. Robert Mayer is a New York Times-bestselling author and the CEO of Cool Gus Publishing. To stop the aliens - at least until the Pandora's box of Area 51 opens up again.Science fiction, thriller, historical, romance Now from the Great Wall of China to a top-secret facility beneath Antarctica's ice cap, an eclectic group of soldiers and scholars are working with Duncan and Turcotte to give humankind one last shimmering hope to survive.

Them? The aliens who are part of a chilling conspiracy connected to ancient riddles, a covert government agency.and Area 51. Scientist Lisa Duncan and Special Forces Officer Mike Turcotte suspect this new 'Black Death' is actually a biological weapon in an escalating war between us.and 'them'. They can't stop it from exploding into a worldwide epidemic poised to kill us all. And in nearby villages people are screaming in pain as they die from a virus more deadly than Ebola. Hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest is a place shrouded in mystery. From New York Times best-selling author Bob Mayer writing as Robert Doherty: Now we know what the government hid there.

Area 51 by Robert Doherty