Gabriel Cohen's first novel, "Red Hook," ""was a finalist for the Edgar award for Best First Novel, and he is also the author of the novels "The Graving Dock" and "Boombox," as well as the nonfiction book "Storms Can't Hurt the Sky." He has written for "The New York Times," "Poets & Writers," "The New York Post" magazine, and other publications, and is now at work on a fourth Jack Leightner novel. He lives in Brooklyn.