Urban Waite
The Esquire Best Book of the Year winner, multiple award-nominated author of The Terror of Living, highly praised by Stephen King and published in over 40 countries.
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Urban Waite’s novels have been published in over 40 countries, translated into 12 languages, and optioned for film. Their accolades include Indie Next Picks, Amazon Editors’ Picks, nominations for the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award, and Kirkus Review Hit List selections.
Urban’s debut novel, The Terror of Living, catapulted him to international acclaim, earning praise from literary giants Stephen King, Daniel Woodrell and Michael Koryta. It was also lauded as a Best Book of the Year by Esquire magazine, the Boston Globe, and Booklist. Since then, Urban has published three more novels, while also adapting projects for renowned entities such as Disney, Ubisoft, and Fox Entertainment, for franchises like The X-Files and Far Cry.
When not writing the next novel, Urban is the Narrative Director and Narrative Consultant for several VC-funded entertainment and gaming start-ups in New York and Silicon Valley, working on a diverse range of projects from historical, speculative fiction and science fiction to crime fiction and rural noir. Urban studied Math and Science at the University of Washington before going on to study Writing at Western Washington University and Emerson College.
For fun (and a few nice dinners here and there), Urban is a regular contributor to the Books Section of the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as the L.A. Times, where he has reviewed known names such as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell, as well as up-and-comers such as Steph Cha, Attica Locke and Nadifa Mohamed.
Urban’s Genres
- Crime
- Suspense
- Literary Fiction
- Mystery
- Thriller
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The Terror of Living
Phil Hunt is in deep trouble.
Hunt is on the run from two men: Drake, the deputy sheriff who intends to catch him, and Grady, the vicious hitman who means to kill him.
For 20 years, Hunt has lived in Washington State, raising horses with his wife on his small farm. He’s tried to stay out of trouble, wanting only to make a living and taking the occasional illicit job in order to do so.
Then his last delivery goes horribly wrong, and the chase is on from the mountains down into the Puget lowlands. To have any chance of rescuing his quiet life, Hunt will have to deal with deputy sheriff Bobby Drake, a good man determined to make up for his father’s tainted legacy, and Grady Fisher, a very bad man intent on making a name for himself in the most violent ways. With a fondness for blood, Grady takes pleasure in the use of knives, taking Hunt’s life apart piece by piece, all the while leaving a trail of victims across the state.
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The Carrion Birds
Hired gun Ray Lamar is ready to put his past behind him. He wants to see his 12-year-old son and start a new life—away from the violence of the last ten years. One last heist will take him there. All he has to do is steal a rival’s stash. Simple, easy, clean.
But when things start to go very wrong, Ray realizes the path to redemption isn’t always easy.
A soulful tale of violence, vengeance, and contrition, The Carrion Birds is an elegant depiction of one man’s last chance to make things right.
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Sometimes the Wolf
Sheriff Patrick Drake tried to lead an upstanding life and maintain some financial stability until his wife passed away. He did okay for a while, singlehandedly raising his family in a small mountain town. Then he was hit with money troubles, fell in with some unsavory men, and ended up convicted of one of the biggest crimes in local history.
Twelve years later, Patrick is on parole under the watchful eye of his son Bobby, who just happens to be a deputy sheriff in his father’s old department.
Bobby hasn’t had it easy, either. He’s carried the weight of his father’s guilt, forsaking his own dreams, and put off the knowledge that his own marriage could be stronger and more hopeful. Yet no matter how much distance he’s tried to put between himself, his father, his grandfather, and the past, small-town minds can have very long memories.
But trouble isn’t done with the Drakes—and a terrifying threat boils up from Patrick’s old life. And this time, no one will be spared...
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