Murderers, thieves, junkies, those who batter and assault others, rapists, fraudsters, con-men, general whacks.
These are not only the people we meet in Barker’s fiction, but some of the people he deals with in the World on a daily basis. But in Barker’s world, both fictional and real, there are also lovers and heroes, the divine and profane, the wonderful and the wonderfully average.
Barker was born in west Texas and raised with music and books and not much else. For a time, his mother was a bookkeeper at a number of clubs (dives all but lovingly so) and there was always music playing. At home, sitting in front of his mother’s bookshelves, dipping into and out of science fiction, humor, horror, crime, there was also music. Which would explain why his fiction is full of both music and criminals.
Barker spent nearly two decades as an on-again/off-again journalist (along with all kinds of other odd jobs) before falling into law enforcement in North-Central Illinois. He is a patrol sergeant and crisis negotiator, and spent a few years working on both the state and Federal level in task forces dedicated to on-line child sexual exploitation. He is the author of more than 200 short stories, as well as the Barefield trilogy – 2000 Miles to Open Road, Exit Blood, Death is Not Forever – published by Down & Out Books. Those books are reflections of the darker side of west Texas and are as stripped down and fast moving as anything you’re likely to read. Think David Goodis, Jim Thompson, James Crumley, Ken Bruen.
Trey is currently either chasing bad guys around the county, or writing new stories.
Find Trey R. Barker online …
Website: http://treyrbarker.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/treyrbarker
Twitter: https://twitter.com/treyrbarker
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Trey-R.-Barker/e/B001K8CEB4/
Goodreads Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/560211.Trey_R_Barker