Les Standiford has written eleven books, including Spill (released as a feature film), Done Deal, Book Deal, Black Mountain, Deal With the Dead, Bone Key and the most recent in the eight-book John Deal Series, Havana Run, as well as a recent Book Sense 76 Pick in non-fiction, Last Train to Paradise. He has received the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Frank O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and an NEA Fellowship in Fiction. He is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University in Miami, where he lives with his wife Kimberly, a psychotherapist, and their three children.
Edgy sex, murder, mayhem...Standiford knows what works. Edgy sex, murder, mayhem...Standiford knows what works. Each scene is like a gasp for breath. --New York Times Standiford delivers a fast-moving thriller with characters that come alive. --Tony Hillerman Like Raymond Chandler, Standiford is a poet in a trench coat. --The Miami Herald