Rick Treon

Rick Treon is the award-winning author of Deep Background and the Bartholomew Beck thriller series, including the novel Let the Guilty Pay and prequel novella Live with the Truth.\n\nHis short story, The Other Man’s Daughter, was published in the Texas High Plains Writers 2020 centennial anthology, With Words We Weave: Celebrating the Past.\n\nRick’s essays have been syndicated across Gannett Media and featured on literary websites The Thrill Begins and BestThrillers.com. He has also written for journalism nonprofit Big If True.\n\nPrior to writing fiction, Rick worked as a reporter and editor for several newspapers in Texas. His journalism career began at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as sports editor of The Daily Texan. He later worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Amarillo Globe-News and The Kerrville Daily Times.\n\nRick would love to connect with you on Facebook (@RickTreonAuthor), Twitter (@RDT4), Instagram (@ricktreon), and his website, ricktreon.com.