Brendan McNally is a Dallas, Texas-based journalist and author, who has written extensively on the topics of telematics, wireless retail, and defense and aerospace, as well as arts and culture. He is the author of two novels, Germania (Simon & Schuster, 2008) and Friend of the Devil. His articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Wired, Smithsonian Air & Space, Defense, and the Rotarian.