Frank Faustino writes the books he spent years looking for and never found. Dark thrillers with queer protagonists who aren’t side characters, aren’t tragic, and aren’t asking for your forgiveness or approval. His debut, the Jonah Grady Series, is set in a near-future America ruled by Christian Nationalists, and follows a gay former SAS operative who turns everything they weaponize against him into the instrument of their destruction.
The thriller genre has produced thousands of military operators and action heroes. Almost none of them are queer. Faustino is here to fix that. A vehement anti-fascist, an indie author by choice, and a firm believer that the thriller genre is long overdue for a hero who refuses to be palatable.
