Lt. Col. JP Cross is a retired British officer who served with Gurkha units for nearly forty years. He has been an Indian frontier soldier, jungle fighter, policeman, military attaché, Gurkha recruitment officer and a linguist researcher, and he is the author of twenty-four books. He has fought in Burma, Indo-China, Malaya and Borneo and served in India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Laos and Nepal where he now lives. Nearing his century, he still walks several hours daily.

Operation Tipping Point is the eighth in a series of historical military novels set in Southeast Asia including Operation Black Rose, Operation Janus, Operation Red Tidings, Operation Blind Spot, Operation Stealth, Operation Four Rings and Operation Blowpipe. The series features Gurkha military units, and the author draws on real events he witnessed and real people he fought alongside in various theatres of war in SE Asia and India.