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. His latest is Life During Wartime, a story collection that made <em>Out of the Gutter</em> say “this man can write.” He is the author of Bad Boy Boogie, his first Jay Desmarteaux crime thriller, and Blade of Dishonor, an action adventure which <em>MysteryPeople</em> called “the Raiders of the Lost Ark of pulp paperbacks.”<br><br>Joyce Carol Oates calls him “a lovely kitty man.”
