Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
Born	1963 (age 60–61)
Occupation	Novelist
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genre	Suspense, Detective fiction, Thriller fiction

Jeff Abbott (born 1963) is an American suspense novelist. He has degrees in History and English from Rice University. He lives in Austin, Texas. Before writing full-time, he was a creative director at an advertising agency. 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, Ireland, Germany, France and Portugal.^[1] He is also Creative Director at Springbox, a Prophet company.