From the Infantry
to the Felt
Shaun Colquhoun picked up a golf club at six years old. Then came the Army, the infantry, and Afghanistan — and the kind of experiences that don’t stay overseas when the deployment ends.
Home again, he found his footing the unlikely way: at the poker tables and on the fairways of Las Vegas. The felt taught him focus — well enough to reach three World Series of Poker final tables. The fairway taught him patience. Both taught him that the fight after the fight can be won — one decision, one breath, one round at a time.
can be won.”
He went on to train at the Golf Academy of America, study PGA Golf Management at UNLV, and spend a decade as one of the Strip’s most trusted VIP hosts — sober, watchful, and quietly collecting the stories that became Vegas: Redacted.
Now he’s crossed into fiction. The Quiet Dead — the first Wade Slow Bear thriller — is set in the desert outside the city he knows best, and dedicated to the veterans still fighting the war at home.
He writes about the games that test us, because they’re the ones that saved him.