Vic Phillips

Published listings confirm Vic Phillips as the author of The Heroin Merchants, a thriller issued by Beaufort Books in 1984 and later by Methuen, and Clowns Wear Guns, a paperback published in 1981 by Virgo. Book databases and bookseller records consistently connect those titles to the same author.

Older genre archives also credit Vic Phillips with science fiction, including "Monopoly," a story or short novel written with Scott Roberts that appeared in Astounding in the early 1940s and is now available through Project Gutenberg. That suggests a writing career that stretched across popular fiction and speculative storytelling.

Beyond those publication traces, dependable biographical information is hard to pin down, and I couldn't confirm details such as birthplace, dates, or a fuller personal history from reliable sources available here. In cases like this, the books themselves are the clearest introduction: punchy titles, pulp energy, and a career that still invites a bit of curiosity.