Tony Black is an award-winning journalist, an internationally sought artist and the author of some of the most critically acclaimed British crime fiction of recent times. He has written more than twenty titles, including: The Storm Without (the first Doug Michie crime thriller), the Gus Dury series (Penguin Random House), Paying for It, Gutted, Loss, Long Time Dead, and Wrecked. Literary titles include His Father's Son and The Last Tiger (runner-up in The Guardian's Not The Booker Prize). Tony's short story collection Last Orders is also published by McNidder & Grace.