Thomas Pluck

Thomas Pluck has slung hash, worked on the docks, trained in martial arts in Japan, and even swept the Guggenheim museum (but not as part of a clever heist). He hails from Nutley, New Jersey, home to criminal masterminds Martha Stewart and Richard Blake, but has so far evaded capture. He is the author of Bad Boy Boogie, his first Jay Desmarteaux crime thriller, and Blade of Dishonor, an action adventure which BookPeople called the Raiders of the Lost Ark of pulp paperbacks.

Joyce Carol Oates calls him a lovely kitty man.

He shares his hideout with his sassy Louisiana wife Firecracker and their two felines: an aloof rescued Siamese named Charlie and an incorrigible dingus named Louie.