Silent Joe

T. Jefferson Parker is an American novelist born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California, who has lived his entire life in Southern California.com He earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Irvine in 1976 and began his writing career as a reporter before publishing his debut novel Laguna Heat in 1985, which was adapted into an HBO movie.T. Jefferson Parker official bio A three-time Edgar Award winner for Silent Joe (2001), California Girl (2004), and the short story "Skinhead Central" (2008), he is renowned for police procedurals and crime novels set in Southern California, including series featuring Charlie Hood and Roland Ford.