Con Lehane has been a union organizer and a college professor, and was, for more than a decade, a bartender. After spending most of his life in and around New York City, he now works as a labor journalist and lives in a Washington, D.C., suburb with his wife and two sons. He writes the Bartender Brian McNulty Mystery series, including the novels "Beware the Solitary Drinker" and "What Goes Around Comes Around".