RICK PULLEN is a journalist by trade who began his novel-writing career in 2011. Naked Ambition, his first novel, made Amazon’s bestseller thriller list in 2016, just three weeks after it was published. The Apprentice was published in 2017, and Naked Truth, a sequel to Naked Ambition, followed in 2018. His agent is John Talbot. His publisher is Koehler Books.
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BOOKS
Naked Ambition (May 2016)
The Apprentice (December 2017)
Naked Truth (September 2018)
Biggest literary influences:
Dashiell Hammett, Scott Turow, Lee Child, Steve Berry and Lawrence Block
Last book read:
The Wife Between Us by by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
The book that changed your life:
Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent. I stayed up late three nights in a row to finish it. The twists and turns amazed me and influenced my writing.
Your favorite literary character:
Bernie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block’s burglar, who constantly finds himself in the middle of a murder he stumbles upon while in the act of burglarizing a Manhattan apartment. He spends the rest of the novel proving he didn’t do it. Simply brilliant! I love his interplay with his gay poodle groomer girlfriend. The dialogue is masterfully witty. Block is the best crafter of witty dialogue since Dashiell Hammett.
Currently working on:
Silent Partner, a domestic thriller.
Words to live by:
“Butt in the chair.”
Advice to new and aspiring authors:
Butt in the chair.
