James Pomerantz
&
Tom Hruby
Authors
James Pomerantz
James is a University of Missouri-Journalism alumni. He wrote his first novel in 1999 and cut his writing teeth in Chicago while owning 10 nightclubs and sports bars over many years.
The Breacher’s Playbook is the first novel in the Deklan Novak trilogy. Among the James Pomerantz book library are novels, Ghost Bandit, Undisclosed Sibling and The Spitting Image of My Father.
James also wrote a 2004 biography entitled They Call Me Sid Rock: Rodeo’s Extreme Cowboy, (Triumph Books, Chicago). The book was a colorful expose of Sid Steiner, 2002 PRCA World Champion Steer Wrestler. The Steiner family is Texas rodeo royalty. Sid’s father Bobby Steiner was a PRCA World Champion Bull Rider. Sid’s son Rocker Steiner was the PRCA 2022 Bareback Resistol Rookie of the Year at 18 years old and finished fifth as a bareback rider in the 2023 PRCA World Standings. Bobby, Sid, and Rocker Steiner appeared in the hit show Yellowstone on Paramount, S3, E7.
James lost his wife, Mary, in 2019. They raised four kids in Winnetka, Illinois. James now lives in Cave Creek, Arizona.
Tom Hruby
Tom graduated from Andrean High School in Merrillville, Indiana in 2000. He played Varsity football as linebacker, fullback, and D-End in high school. He was also MVP on the wrestling team during HS Senior year.
After foregoing college, Tom became a professional MMA fighter in Chicago going undefeated at 7-0. After 9/11, Tom worked construction while he trained for the Navy and the grueling Navy SEAL program. He entered Navy bootcamp and BUD/s training in 2006 and graduated from BUD/s, Airborne School and SQT, receiving his SEAL Trident in 2008. He joined SEAL Team One as a Breacher in 2008 and served until 2016 with four deployments including Iraq and Afghanistan.
While still an active-duty Navy SEAL Pre-BUD/s Instructor (Lead Petty Officer LPO) stationed at Great Lakes Naval Recruit Training Command (RTC Great Lakes) in North Chicago, Illinois, Tom enrolled at Northwestern University as a full-time student and walked onto the football team as a linebacker after not playing football for 15 years. He played in the Big Ten for Pat Fitzgerald and the NU Wildcats from 2014-2016 at 32, 33, and 34 years old.
Divorced and the father of four boys, Tom currently lives at Hruby Ranch in Crown Point, Indiana.
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The Breacher’s Playbook
“This is a tale of good versus evil,” said Pomerantz and Hruby. “Our main character, Deklan, fought his demons in the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan as a Navy SEAL breacher, also known as an explosive expert, on the stadium grass of the Big Ten football fields as a linebacker, and now in Chicago as a special agent for the FBI’s Violent Crimes Against Children squad.”
The mystery thriller lays the groundwork for what the authors describe as a recurring character who is hard, fast, and mean as a razor wire. Deklan’s life path is one of determination and sacrifice in the face of defeat. That grit will be what he leans on in his new role as a tough FBI agent tasked with unraveling the disappearance of two children from a daycare center owned by his mother in this first installment.
This debut narrative, the first in a planned three-book series, is a fictional account based on Hruby’s real-life story.
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Great read