James M. Ardle was born February 13, 1981 in Allentown, PA. In 1998, James in enlisted in the U.S. Army. After an overseas tour in Kosovo, he returned home and founded the A&M Fugitive Recovery Taskforce. After several years of tracking down fugitives, James decided to return to active military service in 2008. Longing to return to his beloved profession, James wrote "A Tangled Web" during a tour in Iraq.