Mykel Hawke is a U.S. Army Special Forces Captain, (retired). Formerly a senior Special Forces Sergeant, he specialized in medicine, communications, and intelligence, combat search
and rescue, guerrilla warfare, counterterrorism, and security tactics. He has deployed to hotspots throughout Eastern Europe, the Middle East,
Latin America, South America, South East Asia, and Africa. Rated in multiple languages, Hawke has a bestselling book,
Hawke's Special Forces Survival Handbook; his first survival book,
Hawke’s Green Beret Survival Manual
sold out of print.
Hawke is an experienced survival instructor in jungle, desert, arctic, sea, and urban environments and runs an
international adventure company, SpecOps, teaching and training in fitness, leadership, and survival. He also works with media,
both behind the scenes in advisory capacities and on screen in featured roles. He has appeared on many broadcast and cable tv shows in both the U.S. and U.K. and is currently starring in two of Discovery's hit series: Man, Woman, Wild and One Man Army.
Hawke is currently at work on new programs for SpecOps, numerous media projects, and other books, one of which is the follow-up to the first Jake Tyler thriller,
In the Dark of the Sun co-authored with Kim Martin.