Robert Steele, former spy, honorary hacker, and #1 Amazon reviewer for nonfiction, has also set the world record for Q&A at eight hours and one minute, going from midnight Saturday to 0801 Sunday at The Next HOPE (2010). In 2012, he was accepted by the Reform Party as a candidate for the presidency. The son of an oil engineer, he has lived all over the world, been a Marine Corps infantry officer, a CIA clandestine case officer, a founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Center, and a CEO of both a for-profit (OSS.Net, closed in 2010) and a nonprofit (Earth Intelligence Network).