Robert dugoni biography

We all like to think of a writer’s literary career as a clean straight line climbing in a gradual upward trajectory until boom, it takes a sudden turn into that steep rise to the top of the bestsellerdom. Reality for most authors—even the most successful—is more often quite different, more like a roller coaster with a variety of ups and downs, and unexpected twists and turns. 

Best-selling author Robert Dugoni—Bob to everyone who’s ever met him—had a roller coaster beginning. It started out like most rollercoasters on an upward trajectory. Well sort of. His first book, TheCyanide Canary, a nonfiction account of corporate abuse, won critical acclaim but not readers. The Washington brev called it one of the best books of the year, but his publisher, Simon & Schuster, did little promotion.

He switched to Hachette’s imprint, Grand huvud Publishing, for his first legal thriller, The Jury Master, ab

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