Christopher J.P. Brouse is the author of Tip of the Spear, the first book in the Relative Truth series.

He lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife and daughter, where he writes military science fiction shaped by a lifelong fascination with technology, war, myth, and the human choices that survive when systems fail.

Christopher first drafted the story that would become Tip of the Spear between 2007 and 2009, while he was still in high school. What began as an ambitious teenage NaNoWriMo project slowly grew into a larger fictional universe, revised and rebuilt over many years. Since starting NaNoWriMo in 2007, he has completed the challenge twice, come close several other times, and carried forward the habit that matters most: returning to the page.

Outside of fiction, Christopher is an Associate Chief Engineer in the defense industry, though he prefers to think of himself more broadly as a systems thinker. Over the course of his career, he has worked on the design, integration, and testing of complex systems including UAVs, USVs, submarines, and satellite systems. That background informs much of his fiction: the tension between elegant designs and brutal reality, the limits of technology, and the way people behave when the plan stops surviving contact with the battlefield.

Christopher holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. During his undergraduate studies, he received an honorable mention in Virginia Tech’s 2010 Steger Award for poetry for “Looking Back at the Future.”

He is also a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and has competed in Fight 2 Win, a professional grappling promotion known for staging events across the country. Years of training and competition have shaped how he thinks about pressure, consequence, endurance, and the uncomfortable gap between theory and action.

His stories tend to live in that same gap: where advanced technology meets ancient fear, where duty collides with survival, and where ordinary people are forced to decide what they are willing to become when there are no clean choices left.