An award-winning former advertising executive, Marshall Karp is a playwright and a screenwriter, and has written and produced numerous TV shows. Having paid his dues in Hollywood, he began killing the people he used to work with - in his novels - the Lomax and Biggs series.
He often collaborates with James Patterson and the duo has concocted several novels, "NYPD Red Alert" is the latest. It is the pair’s fifth "NYPD Red" novel. The two also collaborated on "Kill Me if You Can."
Marshall has named a character after WAMC's Selma Kaplan in the newest book and she participates in this interview along with Marshall's dog, Kylie.