Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbottis a U.S. suspense novelist. He has degrees in History and English from Rice University. He lives in Austin, Texas. His early novels were traditional detective fiction, but in recent years he has turned to writing thriller fiction. A theme of his work is the idea of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary danger and fighting to return to their normal lives. His novels are published in several countries and have also been bestsellers in the United Kingdom, Australia,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.
If it's broken, it can be fixed.
I travel, a lot, to research the locales for the books. I have professional contacts that I can ask questions of or show them scenes to vet.
I want the reader to be in the shoes of everyday people who are facing incredible dangers and wonder if they would make the same choices.
You can't be a professor and talk out of a textbook to teach locomotive operations. You can't create the end product without hands-on training.
I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I try to focus hard on making each character, whether villain or hero, have an interesting flaw that readers can relate to.