VICTOR GISCHLER lives with his wife Jackie and two evil cats in Claremore, Oklahoma, where he teaches Creative Writing for Rogers State University. Raised on a steady diet of John D. MacDonald novels, Victor has thrown himself into hard-boiled, noir fiction with a passion. He’s published short stories in Blue Murder, Thrilling Detective, Plots With Guns. Crimestalker Casebook, The Best American Mystery Stories 1999, and elsewhere.