Theo St. John is the kind of man who makes you nervous at parties—not because he's dangerous, but because he watches. Twenty years in film production and advertising, studying how to make people want things. The civil engineering degree sits unused, proof of the life he was supposed to live.
He started writing psychological thrillers in 2025. Those stories had been building up, waiting. He calls them thrillers, but they're really about the lies we tell ourselves, the things we do when no one's watching. His debut novel, My Father the Yakuza, explores the dark underbelly of family secrets and organized crime.
Theo writes about identity like a man who's tried on too many faces. About redemption like someone who knows it's mostly fake. His characters don't stumble into danger—they choose it. Because he understands what most people won't admit: we're all one bad day away from becoming someone else.
He still has that engineer's precision. Every plot point calculated, every reveal deliberate. The visual storyteller who knows exactly which angle will make you flinch. When he's not writing dark fiction, he's probably watching you at that party, taking mental notes for his next thriller.
My mother told me my father was dead. She Lied.
Tokyo. Secrets. Blood. Nothing stays buried forever.
My Father the Yakuza by Theo St. John. A dark thriller about lies, family, and the price of truth.
Available soon on Amazon.
