Ed McBain is the pseudonym of the famous American writer Evan Hunter, who became famous for his wonderful book about the school “Blackboard Jungle” (chapters from it were published in the USSR) and on which an even more famous film of the same name was made, which was the harbinger of the triumphal march of the first throughout the USA, and then throughout the world of new youth music - rock and roll... Under the name McBain, he writes action-packed (most often police) novels and stories.