John Gormally | Award-Winning Fictional Writer
John Gormally | Award-Winning Fictional Writer

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Patrick Greenwood is the pen name of John Gormally — a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, MBA graduate, and 28-year cybersecurity professional. Based in Oro Valley, Arizona, John writes fiction drawn from decades of real-world intelligence, threat analysis, and global travel.
Twenty-eight years in cybersecurity teaches you one thing above all else: every threat has a story.
Behind every breach, every intrusion, every carefully engineered attack — there is a human being with a motive, a method, and a moment of decision. John Gormally spent nearly three decades studying those moments. At companies like LogRhythm and Proofpoint, he didn't just sell security solutions — he learned how adversaries think, how systems fail, and how the smallest vulnerability can unravel everything.
That knowledge doesn't stay in the boardroom.
It bleeds into the page.
When John began writing thriller fiction as Patrick Greenwood, he brought with him something most novelists never have — a career's worth of real-world tension. The kind that doesn't need to be invented because it has already happened. In classified briefings. In war rooms. In the quiet seconds before an alert fires.
His Jack Kendall series carries that weight. The tradecraft feels authentic because it is. The threat landscapes are real because he has navigated them professionally for decades.
Cybersecurity made John Gormally a student of human nature.
Fiction gave him somewhere to put it.
Red Scorpion: Rising — Book 3 of the Jack Kendall Series. Available July 1, 2026 on Amazon Kindle and in print.

The Writing Journey — Finding the story from within.
Every great story begins with a single decision. In 2019, John Gormally — a content strategist, brand builder, and digital marketing consultant — made his: to start writing fiction.
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