ABOUT THE AUTHORS

CHRISTA FAUST is the author of several hardboiled crime novels, including Choke Hold, Money Shot and Hoodtown, as well as a dozen tie-ins and novelizations such as the award-winning Snakes on a Plane. She’s written for Marvel and created an original comic series called Peepland with coauthor Gary Phillips. She worked in the Times Square peep booths, as a professional dominatrix, and in the adult film industry both behind and in front of the cameras for over twenty years. Faust is a film noir fanatic and an avid reader of classic hardboiled pulp novels, and an MMA fight fan. She lives and writes in Los Angeles. Her website is http://www.christafaust.com.

Son of a mechanic and a librarian, weaned on the images of Kirby and Kane in comics, on too many reruns of the Twilight Zone, and on Himes and Hammett in prose, GARY PHILLIPS has published various novels such as Violent Spring, the first such mystery set in post ’92 civil unrest LA; edited several anthologies including The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir; and published more than sixty short stories. With Christa Faust, he co-wrote the late ’80s-set graphic novel Peepland for Titan, about which thefandompost.com remarked, “A damn near perfect comic, hardboiled in all the right ways,” and did the Vigilante: Southland miniseries for DC Comics.