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Robert Ferrigno was born in South Florida, a tropical backwater rife with mosquitoes and flying cockroaches.After earning college degrees in Philosophy, Film-Making, 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... Read full bio

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Seattle Times, April 14, 2013
...April’s crime-fiction roundup features new work by local writers Waverly Curtis, Robert Ferrigno and Seattle native Lis Wiehl, as well as Portlander Phillip Margolin. Special to The Seattle Times Related Most Popular Comments This month’s...
National Review, April 30, 2013
...A few weeks ago, Robert Ferrigno, author of The Girl Who Cried Wolf , was my NRO podcast victim . For a limited time, Amazon is selling his e-book for about what it will cost to put...
Action News Jacksonville, April 26, 2013
...t seem to be doing anything about it. They just kind of close their eyes," said neighbor Robert Ferrigno."Somebody should be doing something, somebody should step up and say, 'Hey, let's get that house torn down,'" said McBride.But the city can't decide...
Seattle Times, April 14, 2013
...April’s crime-fiction roundup features new work by local writers Waverly Curtis, Robert Ferrigno and Seattle native Lis Wiehl, as well as Portlander Phillip Margolin. Special to The Seattle Times Related Most Popular Comments This month’s...
National Review, March 19, 2013
...Today’s Between the Covers podcast with with Robert Ferrigno , author of The Girl Who Cried Wolf . We discuss the plot behind what Ferrigno calls his “knucklehead environmentalist terrorist” crime thriller, its connection to an old story by O...
Lake Wylie Pilot, January 11, 2013
...east of the Flagler County Airport around 2:20 p.m., several minutes after the pilot's call. Robert Ferrigno, who lives down the street, said he heard the crash from his home. "Planes go over here all the time, but this afternoon, I heard, 'putt, putt,...
WATE, January 5, 2013
...window, and looked up the street and there were flames coming out of the house," said neighbor Robert Ferrigno. "My wife was pretty upset after seeing it, yes. She came outside after hearing the explosion. She didn't see the accident, but she heard the...
Louisville Channel, January 5, 2013
...you know sometimes they putt-putt, and I heard a putt-putt, and then I heard boom," said neighbor Robert Ferrigno. Investigators said that just before the crash the pilot reported the aircraft was shaking severely. The plane was heading from...