Mike Dickson

Mike Dickson writes crime fiction rooted in the late Cold War street: tape rooms, stakeouts, and the men who heard history through headphones and could not make anyone listen. A longtime student of New York organized-crime cases, he focuses on the hours before the famous shots, when procedure and pride still felt like they might hold. Fists of Five is his novel of December 16, 1985. He lives in the United States.