When Whit Howland is not writing about tough clowns, he is fueled by a voracious appetite of crime fiction from the likes of Richard Stark, Joe r Lansdale, Mickey Spillane, James Ellroy, Seth Harwood, to name a few. An L A native he currently resides with his wife in Godfrey Illinois and anxiously awaits the release of the next Huey Dusk story. Huey Dusk is an amalgamation of many literary hard boiled bad boys.