Robert Ferrigno (born 1947) is an American
author
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of
crime novels
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and of
speculative fiction
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. Eight books published between 1990 and 2004 were additions to the
detective
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and
thriller genres, while the post 9/11 'Assassin trilogy' is set in an imagined United States dominated by Islam.
In February 2009 he was nominated as a finalist for an
Edgar Award
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and has been reviewed by the LA Times and the New York Times
for his book ''Prayers for the Assassin''.
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'' (2008)
* ''Heart of the Assassin'' (2009)
* ''The Girl Who Cried Wolf'' (2013)
References
External links
Author's WebsiteAuthor profile at Simon & Schuster
1947 births
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American male novelists
American mystery writers
Living people
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
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