Most recently, Vankin wrote the book Close To Zero: How Donald Trump fulfilled his apocalyptic vision and paid his debt to Putin with a devastating biological warfare attack on America, an account of Donald Trump's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
His co-writer in this case was Kirsten Holly Smith who also performed the lead role of Dusty Springfield in the Off Broadway production.
Also in 2009, he collaborated with co-writer and illustrator Arnold Pander on the graphic novel Tasty Bullet, published by Image Comics.
[3] Again collaborating with Whalen, Vankin has written for the 1999 TV series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven.
[4] Vankin, formerly a news editor of San Jose, California's Metro newspaper, is a graduate of Brandeis University.