Robert Henricks

Robert Henricks is the author of numerous novels dating back to 1984. He has most recently been concentrating on historical themes for his books which typically stem from a single event in the past. A lifetime student of history, he caught the bug from his father and followed it through to a college degree in U.S. and European history. His path to becoming a novelist began in high school after being exposed to such inspirations as the Iliad, the Odyssey and War and Peace. This experience led to other outstanding works of historical fiction such as Mark Helprin’s ‘A Soldier of the Great War’ and Michael Shaara’s ‘Killer Angels’. While his path to becoming a writer of fiction went through the history genre, his interests were not confined there. In the spy genre, Ian Fleming’s James Bond led to Len Dawson and the ‘Ipcress File’ then to Adam Hall’s ‘Quiller Memorandum’ and William Stevenson’s ‘A Man called Intepid’ and finally to a whole slew of novels by Tom Clancy. He became ad