To my Spider-Girl message board co-mod, Matt “VENOM” Kayser, thanks for reading a later draft and offering advice. Mayday Parker rules!
To my good friend and fellow Bond buff Brian Sheridan, thanks for serving as my Major Boothroyd for tae kwon do.
To the Top Shelf Books Open Mic Night crew, thanks for welcoming me so enthusiastically and giving me a boost of confidence when I needed one. I look forward to buying all your books soon.
To the team at Intrigue Publishing, LLC thanks for having faith in my story. Thanks also to editor Lindsey Errington for saving me from several embarrassing mistakes.
Author Bio
Jeffrey Westhoff has served as a film critic, feature writer, reporter, and copy editor in his career as a journalist. Jeffrey wrote his first novel, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, while working as a freelance writer.
Jeffrey grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he spent his Saturday mornings at the library and his Saturday nights at the movies. That love of reading and film prepared his future as a movie critic. Seeing Star Wars on its opening day in 1977 made him a movie lover, but it was a viewing of The Spy Who Loved Me that sealed Jeffrey’s fate as a James Bond fan. His first published movie review appeared in the Erie Times News while he was senior in high school.
Also during his senior year of high school, Jeffrey made a campus visit to Marquette University and immediately fell in love with Milwaukee—even though he arrived on a gloomy February day. He enrolled at Marquette the following fall. The first time he visited Milwaukee’s famous spy bar, the Safe House, Jeffrey knew the password without knowing it was the password. His favorite Milwaukee hangout was the Oriental Theatre.
After spending a year and a half in Wabash, Ind., Jeffrey took a job at the Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Ill. He has lived in the Chicago area ever since. He was a film critic for more than 25 years. During that time he met or interviewed five of the six actors to play James Bond (all except Sean Connery). Pierce Brosnan once wished him a happy birthday. He has contributed to RogerEbert.com and also wrote book reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Jeffrey lives in Chicago’s northwest suburbs with his wife, Jeanette. He is now working on his second novel. Visit his website at www.jeffreywesthoff.com.
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