Steven Gore is an American thriller writer and author of the Graham Gage (Final Target, 2010 and Absolute Risk, 2010) and Harlan Donnally (Act of Deceit, September 1, 2011) series published by HarperCollins. Gore is a former private investigator in the San Francisco Bay Area whose novels draw on his investigations of murder, fraud, money laundering, organized crime, political corruption, and drug, sex, and arms trafficking in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.