The Accidental Joe

“Tom Straw’s Sebastian Pike is a wonderful addition to the annals of amateur sleuths of the crime/spy genre. Wisecracking and wounded, his clear, innocent voice carries a deep understanding of the world we know and, more importantly, the world that we suspect. The Accidental joe is a Hitchcockian spy story: surrounded by more spies than he knows, Pike is the ultimate amateur, a chef-provocateur for a cable TV reality show balancing a tower of croquembouche in the South of France amidst a dizzyingly fast-paced mission filled with assassins and betrayals.” – Walter Mosley, author of Every Man a King and the forthcoming Easy Rawlins, Farewell, Amethystine
“Tom Straw has set the bar for culinary, espionage travel thrillers. Actually, I think he invented the bar. And it’s a bar I’d meet him at anytime.” – Alton Brown, culinary personality but also totally a spy
“A masterful beginning to a series I hope runs forever. The writing is superb, the action thrilling, the story both exciting and gut-wrenching. Bourdain, le Carré, Herron, and Greene, make room for Straw.” – Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of Sleepless City
“I couldn’t put it down—and I sure didn’t want to! Great action, clever tradecraft, behind-the-scenes TV production, and food porn, all offered up by one of the most appealing narrators I’ve come across in years. I hope Tom Straw is intending this to be a series because I’m already on line for the next one.” – SJ Rozan, bestselling author of The Mayors of New York

Tom Straw is an Emmy and Writers Guild of America–nominated writer-producer, New York Times bestselling author, and former Mystery Writers of America board member.

Writing as Richard Castle, Tom originated the hit Nikki Heat series, writing its first seven novels, all New York Times bestsellers, including Heat Rises, which reached number one. Later, he published Buzz Killer under his own name, because Stephen King was already taken.

Tom dropped out of UCLA to become a DJ, and soon after, a TV weathercaster. Subsequently, he began a television writing career on comedies including Night Court, for which he earned two WGA “Best Comedy Writer” nominations and a Primetime Emmy nomination. Tom served as head writer and executive producer of Dave’s World, Grace Under Fire, Whoopi, and Nurse Jackie. He also wrote for CBS’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Seems like Tom Straw can’t keep a job.

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