John Quincannon

John Quincannon is the lead protagonist of the “John Quincannon” series of detective thrillers by Bill Pronzini. The first novel of the series was “Quincannon” that introduced former United States Secret Service agent John Frederick Quincannon and his partner Sabina Carpenter, that team up to start an investigations business. Pronzini the author was born in California in 1943 and showed early predilection to reading. Some of his favorite novels were the mystery digests and science fiction books that belonged to his grandfather and the pulp magazines to be found in second hand bookstore in San Francisco. Like “Nameless” his most popular character, Pronzini has a huge collection of digest and pulp magazines that contains nearly 3000 titles. He would later attend junior college and work selling magazines on the newsstand, part time civilian guard, car park attendant, office typist, sports reporter, warehouseman, and plumbing supplies salesman. Pronzini published his first fiction work “You Don’t Know What It’s Like” and by the time he turned sixty he was a full time writer. His first ever novel was the 1971 published “The Stalker”, after which he went on to publish pulp magazine and a range of fiction under his own name and other pseudonyms such as Alex Saxon, and Jack Foxx.