T. Jefferson Parker discusses his book, "The Triggerman's Dance," which begins with a woman, Susan, leaving work, and getting shot twice. She is engaged to an FBI agent, but is truly in love with John, who works at a newspaper. Both men come together to try and solve the case. Parker attended Orange Coast College, and then finished at University of California, Irvine. He found UCI had a great writing atmosphere. He went to Europe for a summer, where he decided he wanted to become a writer. His first job was at a weekly newspaper as a movie critic, which dovetailed into a full-time reporting job. He went on to a daily paper, and then became a technical editor at an aerospace project. During this entire time, he was writing his first book, "Laguna Heat." "The Triggerman's Dance" is now his fifth book. Parker purposely does not reuse characters.
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