War is a Crime

After 9/11, novelist Matthew Hefti visited his local Armed Forces recruiter. He then spent 12 years as an explosive ordnance disposal technician, deploying twice to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan. His war novel A HARD AND HEAVY THING (Gallery Books) was named one of the top 10 First Novels of 2016 by Booklist. Hefti now works as an attorney for Houston's GRACE project, an independent charity providing capital defense to indigents facing the death penalty.

Novelist David Eric Tomlinson was born and raised in Oklahoma, educated in California, and now lives in Dallas. His crime novel THE MIDNIGHT MAN (Gallery Books) centers around a capital murder trial that forces five strangers to overcome deep-seated racial, social, and political differences, in the year preceding the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

In this engaging panel discussion, Hefti and Tomlinson will interview one another about their work, influences, and the spaces where war and crime fiction often intersect.