BARRY BROAD

According to the bio on Amazon: "Barry Broad was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1957. An early fan of the hard boiled school of detective fiction, by the time he was sixteen, he was wandering around the streets of southern California looking for the places mentioned in Raymond Chandler novels. He studied history in college, spending part of his education at Cambridge University in England. Returning to the US, he decided to go to law school. He became a labor lawyer, first working for the Teamsters and then other unions, and in the mix, getting to know everyone from dockworkers to truck drivers, from professional jockeys to cops.

Broad lives in Sacramento, California."