
He served as a legislative staff assistant to U.S. Earlier, as a Financial Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Ian published numerous reports and articles, including the influential 1996 article "Bad Debt Rising," published in Current Issues (co-authored with Donald Morgan), on the factors behind the increasing rate of credit card loan defaults. Ian's previous career included employment in major financial companies covering wireless communications, e-commerce, and software. The Colby Award recognizes a first work of fiction or non-fiction that has made a major contribution to the understanding of intelligence operations, military history, or international affairs for military writing.


Six Frigates is his first book, which won a 2007 Colby Award.

Toll has been a Wall Street analyst, a Federal Reserve financial analyst, and a political aide and speechwriter. Toll: Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S.
