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Something About Me and My Book:: Matthew Eberz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attended Penn State University, and upon graduation in 1974, entered the United States Army. Initially trained at Ft Bragg, North Carolina, he entered the service as a Second Lieutenant serving in the Army's Transportation Corps at Fort Eustis, Virginia.

Matt rose to the rank of Regular Army Major in the United States Army and served numerous assignments including Platoon Leader, Unit Commander, Battalion Operations Officer, Division Transportation Officer, Chief World Wide Military Command & Control Systems Europe, and Deputy Director of the United States Army Artificial Intelligence Center at Fort Monroe Virginia. He also served as a Training Officer with the United States
Reserves at Ft. Sheridan, Ft. Sheridan, Illinois, where he first come across the graves of nine German POWs. Using the post library, he researched the POWs, how they came to be there and the work they did during that war period. Post army service, he continued in the computer industry developing major computer systems for private industry. Matt is also the creator of the ADAM alert notification system, which supports the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
(NCMEC) sends immediate messages to police, ospitals, news media and individuals in targeted areas to speed in the recovery of missing children.
In 2006, Matt and his wife Rebecca moved to Highlands, North Carolina where, as Matt said in the recent interview, "This is a place where a person can life their life full-measure."

Summary of the Novel VERY PUBLIC DATA by Matthew Eberz
Major Sam Call, now retired from the United States Army, has become full-time
partners in an investigation firm with his friend, David Lytle. David was instrumental in
helping Sam uncover the identity of a former German POW who had escaped from a
World War II POW camp at Fort Sheridan, and in doing so partially solved a war crime
that had remained hidden for forty-five years, and also bring home a soldier who had
been lost since 1945.
Now in the civilian world, Sam Call, in his new role as investigator, is sent to
investigate the financial dealings of a Public Records company. IdentityPoint is a major
player in the relatively new world of computerized public records that has grown from a
small warehouse of insurance information to the largest provider of public records data in
the United States. IdentityPoint provides government, private companies, as well as
individuals with reports on individual personal data including: names, aliases, address
history, relatives, property ownership, dates of birth, death, marriage, divorce, and social
security numbers. If a client wanted to know the ins and out of an individual,
IdentityPoint could provide the report that would reveal everything from the person’s
birth, to their death, and everything in between.
By acquiring nearly a hundred small data gathering companies over five years,
IdentityPoint had become the largest single warehouse of public records in the United
States. Believing one of the senior officers has been illegally benefiting from a string of
acquisitions, another corporate officer contracted LNMB Investigation, to go undercover
to seek out the financial data to prove her suspicions. Along with David’s long-time
associate. Bob, a small, unassuming but extremely resourceful man, Sam goes
undercover in a mesmerizing world of data and computers.
While seeking data that would determine if there were illegal activities involving
acquisitions, Sam quickly discovers the vastness of the public records data systems, the
immense power the company, and the data, have over the lives of typical and not so
typical citizens. This huge, almost unchecked repository of personal data, properly
inquiried can provide the entire life’s history of an individual including their connections
with other people, property, and companies. While using the powerful reporting tools,
Sam unknowingly comes across individual names that when inquired alert the F.B.I., and
Sam once again finds himself the target of those who would wish to silence anything Sam
has to say, as well as silencing Sam–permanently.
Set in Georgia, British Virgin Islands, and Washington D.C., Very Public Data,
explores the world of Public Records, secret organizations, the world of personal
identities, those that build them and those who abuses them.
The story of Very Public Data unveils both the positive and negative power of
public data; and while this is a tale of corruption, murder, and deception, it is also a
celebration of the love of a man and a woman, the unbreakable bond of soldiers, and the
undying strength that honor brings to the human spirit.