Undertaking graduate and post-graduate studies, Hoof matriculated at Purdue University, earning his doctorate.
Following a stint as a teacher at Montgomery College, Hoof was employed by the United States Department of Energy, where he was part of the nuclear reactor fuel reprocessing program.
In 1991, Hoof released The Last Prisoner, and in 1992, he published Blind Man's Bluff, a sequel to Sight Unseen.
Detailing the adventures of Spike Halleck, the books were followed by a third, Blind Rage, published exclusively in Japanese.
Shadow Line Press then published Triple Jeopardy, his seventh novel, in 2010, just as his screenplay Landfill went into production by Impact Motion Pictures.