Craig McDonald
Craig McDonald
Craig McDonald is a journalist and the author of The Hector Lassiter series, The Chris Lyon series, the standalone novel El Gavilan, as well as two collections of interviews with fellow fiction writers, Art in the Bloodand Rogue Males. He also edited the anthology "Borderland Noir"...
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