Rick Treon is a suspense novelist, a member of the International Thriller Writers and a member of the Texas High Plains Writers. Treon is also a former journalist who, after graduating from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s in journalism, worked as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, was a reporter and editor at the Amarillo Globe-News and was the managing editor of The Kerrville Daily Times. He now lives and writes in Texas.