Andrew Gross

Howard Andrew Gross (May 18, 1952 – April 9, 2025) was an American author of thriller novels, including four New York Times bestsellers. He is best known for his collaborations with suspense writer James Patterson. Gross's books feature close family bonds, relationships characterized by loss or betrayal, and a large degree of emotional resonance which generally leads to wider crimes and cover-ups. The books have all been published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins.

Early life and education Andrew Gross was born in Manhattan, New York City on May 18, 1952. In 1979, he met his wife, Lynn, on a blind date in New York City, and they married three years later. In 1982, he received a master's degree in Business Policy from Columbia University. where he worked as a dress buyer, he opened a stew-and-soup fast food pilot named Ebeneezer's. He eventually went back to work for his family's publicly held apparel firm, the Leslie Fay Companies. and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange). As Gross describes it, "sometimes the toughest thing about being in a family company is that it's filled with your own family", and in 1991, he left to pursue his own opportunities at Le Coq Sportif, The Dark Tide featured the fictional detective Ty Hauck of Greenwich, Connecticut, who became the lead character in Gross's corruption and political conspiracy-based bestsellers Don't Look Twice and Reckless.

In 2011, Gross departed from Ty Hauck, writing Eyes Wide Open, which builds on two personal stories from his own past.

January 2014, Andrew decided to bring back Ty Hauck and started writing One Mile Under in 2015. He followed it with The One Man, a World War II thriller, in 2016. Kirkus called the book "Gross' best work yet".

Button Man is a 2018 novel about public corruption, extortion and labor racketeering menacing the New York City garment industry during the 1930s. The novel is partly based on the life of Gross's maternal grandfather, Fred P. Pomerantz (1901–86), a garment manufacturer who stood up to mobsters such as Lepke Buchalter, Jacob Shapiro and Emanuel Weiss.

Later life and death Gross died from bladder cancer in Purchase, New York, on April 9, 2025, at the age of 72.

Published works

Collaborative The Jester (2003) 2nd Chance (2002) 3rd Degree (2004) Lifeguard (2005) Judge and Jury (2006)

Solo The Blue Zone (2007) Eyes Wide Open (July 2011) ; titled Killing Hour in UK/Australia/NZ 15 Seconds (April 2012) No Way Back (April 2013) Everything To Lose (March 2014) The One Man (August 2016) The Saboteur (August 2017) Button Man/The Last Brother (September 2018) The Fifth Column (September 2019)

Ty Hauck series The Dark Tide (2008) Don't Look Twice (2009) Reckless (2010) One Mile Under (2015)