Robert Ferrigno
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Robert Ferrigno (born 1947) is an American author of crime novels. He is best known for his entertaining writing style, which combines quirky characters with strong plots and sharp dialogue.
[edit] Biography
Ferrigno was born in South Florida, a tropical backwater rife with mosquitoes and flying cockroaches.
After earning college degrees in Philosophy, Filmmaking, and Creative Writing, he returned to his first love, poker. He spent the next five years gambling full-time and living in a high-crime area populated by starving artists, alcoholics, thieves and drug dealers, becoming friends with many people who would later populate his novels.
He used some of his winnings to start a punk rock magazine called The Rocket, where he interviewed The Clash, Elvis Costello, Iggy Pop, etc. The success of The Rocket got him a job as a feature writer for a daily newspaper in Southern California, where he took the adventure-and-new-money beat.
Over the next seven years he flew jets with the Blue Angels, drove Ferraris, and went for desert survival training with gun nuts. He ultimately gave up his day job to become a novelist, and his first book, The Horse Latitudes, was called "the fiction debut of the season" by Time magazine.
[edit] Novels
- The Horse Latitudes (1990), his first
- Cheshire Moon (1993)
- Dead Man's Dance (1995)
- Dead Silent (1996)
- Heartbreaker (1999)
- Flinch (2001)
- Scavenger Hunt (2003)
- The Wake-Up (2004)
- Prayers for the Assassin (2006)
- Sins of the Assassin (Feb. 2008)
