About the Author

Dr. Lonie S. Haynes is a decorated U.S. Army veteran who served in West Germany during the height of the Cold War—an experience that continues to inform his work as a novelist exploring power, secrecy, and the hidden systems that shape global events.

A former Fortune 10 executive and inductee into Marquis Who's Who in America®, Dr. Haynes has held senior leadership roles at some of the nation's most prominent institutions, including Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Rochester Regional Health, Global Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at AmerisourceBergen (Fortune 500 #8), and Vice President at Highmark Health.

A political scientist by training and cultural anthropologist by perspective, he brings a deep understanding of culture, institutions, human behavior, and public and private policies — and the systems and pathologies that drive them — to his fiction, grounding it in both rigorous analysis and lived experience.

He holds a Doctorate in Law and Policy from Northeastern University, with distinction, and postgraduate degrees in management and public administration from Boston University and The City University of New York (CUNY), where he was a National Urban Fellow. And an undergraduate degree in political science from the State University of New York (SUNY). He has also served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy.

His debut manuscript — then titled Silent Voices, written in 1998 and represented by the Michael Meller Literary Agency in Munich — earned early praise from editors at Simon & Schuster London, Doubleday New York, and Droemer Knaur Books, now part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. Three major publishers. Three continents. Nearly thirty years later, that story has become The Lucinda Protocol — deepened by Cold War service, shaped by a career spent inside the very institutions his fiction examines, and fully realized as the novel it was always meant to be.

Dr. Haynes lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Stephanie.

The Lucinda Protocol is his debut novel.

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