Gary Phillips

Son of a mechanic and a librarian with roots in the Texas Hill Country and the Mississippi Delta, Gary Phillips keeps writing to forestall his appointment at the Crossroads. He has published novels, written comics for companies including DC, Dark Horse, and Comixology Originals, penned nearly one hundred short stories, worked in television, and edited several anthologies, including the Anthony Award–winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir.

The Wall Street Journal named One-Shot Harry one of the twenty-five best mysteries of the last twenty-five years. O’Conner, the professional thief masterminding the major heist in Phillips’s latest novel, The Haul, first appeared in the novel Warlord of Willow Ridge. He later resurfaced in the short stories “One Night in Brownsville” and “In a Cold Sweat,” carrying out additional scores.

In Culprits: The Heist Was Just the Beginning, O’Conner became the central figure in a linked anthology that later served as the source material for Culprits, a limited television series on Hulu.