He also attended Oxford Commercial College and Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. Crooks migrated to the United States in 1968, settling in Brooklyn, New York. In the office of Prime Minister, he covered several high level international conferences. In the U.S., Crooks worked as a legal assistant in various Wall Street law firms. Mr. Crooks' travels to Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean have influenced not only his writing, but his love of music.
Crooks is an exciting new voice in Caribbean literature.
Crooks further demonstrates his expertise as a writer as he intricately weaves within the central theme of suspense drama, sub themes which evoke compassion and empathy from the reader. The invasion of lively Caribbean-American masses on Eastern Parkway enjoying the culture of steelband music, street debates, and exotic, delectable cuisine is one of those sub themes. Police brutality on the streets of Brooklyn is another. It is this seeming dichotomy underlying the apparent singular central themes that magnetized the reader and keeps him reaching beyond the pages to a source within to solve not only the murder but universal questions. Crooks' work is highly emotive as he beckons and with cunning sleight of pen finally draws the reader farther into the recesses of his own intimate being to seek the answer.