Patrick Smith is an engineer, project manager, cybersecurity professional, and author whose career has taken him through power generation, industrial controls, cybersecurity, and public infrastructure.
Much of The Turtle Wins grew out of those experiences—working around complex systems, difficult conditions, and situations where the obvious advantage didn’t always determine the outcome. Over the years, Patrick began noticing the same pattern outside of engineering: being outmatched doesn’t necessarily mean being out of options.
That idea became The Turtle Wins: How to Win When You’re Not the Strongest, a book that brings together real-world experience, history, engineering, and practical lessons about timing, rules, leverage, adaptation, and endurance.
Patrick has always had stories in him. After researching how to publish and learning the process step by step, he expanded into fiction with The Game Ain’t a Game, a crime novel told in 18 rules, and Never Speak of It, a novel of adult suspense. Across every genre, his books come back to the same theme: the choices people make when the odds aren’t on their side, and what follows.
Patrick holds a Master of Engineering from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s degree from Clayton State University. He lives in Georgia.
Books by Patrick Smith
Slow and steady still gets to the water.