Thomas Sturm works as a software engineer in San Francisco.
Previously he had worked in a video game store, earned a degree in Electrical Engineering, traveled the world, repaired washing machines, developed computer games and once helped write a multitasking operating system in a summer. He has also spent one year forty meters underground for the German Airforce, apparently fighting the mole people.
He can usually be found walking the streets of San Francisco with a vintage Kodak Medalist at the ready.
Shanghai Gold is his first novel.