Gary Phillips
Gary Phillips is a 2-Time AALBC.com Bestselling Author
Gary Phillips writes fictional stories of chicanery and
malfeasance in various formats, often drawing on his past experiences. He is
a Los Angeles native, and was born and raised in the then South Central area
of the city. There he was a community activist on issues ranging from police
abuse, the anti-apartheid movement and opposing the contras in Central
America during the Reagan era.
His most current novel is Warlord of Willow Ridge which Booklist said of the
work, "Phillips is a veteran crime novelist who creates a plausible
postapocalyptic scenario in which the safety of middle-class America can
dissolve in a moment. Exciting, violent, and entertaining." He has also
written essays for the Robert B. Parker tribute book, In Pursuit of Spenser
and for The Wire: Race, Class, and Genre. Currently with Tommy Hancock and
Pro Se Press, Philips is co-editing and contributing to Black Pulp, pulp
stories featuring black main characters and editing and contributing to a
themed linked anthology of short stories, Night of the Insurgents,
showcasing America’s super spy before Bauer and Borne, Jimmy Christopher,
Operator 5, for Moonstone.
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