Thom Harrison Jr. has spent his professional life in three disciplines that share one common thread — the ability to read people, patterns, and situations with clarity and without sentiment.

As a golf professional and coach he learned early that performance reveals character. As an entrepreneur he learned that patterns in business and patterns in people follow the same rules. As a writer and observer he spent fifty years watching a pattern in human relationships that nobody had named completely.

Nice Guys Finish Last: The Greatest Lie Ever Told is the result of that watching. It draws on a century of American film, six cultural traditions, seven documented psychological mechanisms, three thousand years of biblical accounts, and four hundred years of theater. It is the book he wished someone had handed him at the kitchen table. Nobody did. So he built it himself.

Harrison lives and works in Arizona.