Tom Hannon  was raised in East Meadow, a suburban Long Island town. Tom  mixes his genre and is never afraid to experiment with something new, something different, but always coming up with a surprise ending. His favorite authors are Nelson DeMille (John Corey character) and James Patterson (those short chapters). A machinist by trade, he opened his own machine shop in 1974 called Tojopa Tool and Instrument. He is still actively involved in the business. Tom has since written 30 short stories, two novellas and a novel called IN A Not So Perfect World .