T.K. is seeking representation for their unpublished crime novel Charlie Bang and their historical caper, Old Bird.

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Charlie Bang

It’s 1991, and Agent Charlie Bang has an anger problem. Actually, she’s got a lot of problems, but her temper is the one that got her demoted, so instead of working on the biggest money-laundering case of her career, she’s stuck in art crimes. Worse, she’s been partnered with Jerry, a once-competent agent who is now work-avoidant. On her first case, an art historian is murdered by Stephen White, a finance guy who was trying to sell a fake. Four days later, White is dead, and Homicide calls it a suicide. Charlie suspects a cover-up. Her boss tells her to drop it. Instead, while Jerry drinks himself into a stupor, she uncovers an insurance scheme involving suspicious deaths. She also learns Jerry’s apathy stems from feeling responsible for his former partner’s death. Charlie tells Jerry to get over himself or get out of her way. He chooses the former, and together, they implicate a well-connected philanthropist in several murders. After discovering who the next victims will be, Charlie goes to her boss, who threatens to fire her if she doesn’t forget what she found. Now Charlie must choose between playing nice to protect her career or following her instincts and pursuing the truth.

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Old Bird

​More Bullet Train than Bovary, Old Bird is the story of an 1893 train heist orchestrated by two unlikely partners in crime. Theo is an expert safecracker who has lived as a man her entire life. Pushing fifty, she’s now in the throes of menopause and has arthritis in her hands. Philip is a Black painter who is grieving the loss of his wife. He is also a master forger whose paintings hang in museums on both sides of the Atlantic. The two friends have worked together since their days as Union spies, and while they both love the thrill of a well-executed plan, they’re getting old and need one last big score. The plan is simple: steal diamonds off a moving train and be gone before anyone notices. To do this, Theo “disguises” herself as an old woman and Philip poses as a Pullman porter. Unfortunately, even the best in the business can’t always account for pistol-packing nuns, murderous toadies, or their own aging bodies.