B. Kent Anderson

B. Kent Anderson is an American novelist of thriller and suspense novels. Aside from using his real name, he also has used the pen name of David Kent for his Department Thirty series earlier in his career. He got interested in writing fiction when after finishing his second grade school assignments, he would write fake newspapers. He started writing seriously in 1988 while he was working in radio. For 14 years, he wrote five novels, but was rejected left and right by publishers. He finally found an agent in 2002 and sold his first novel in three weeks. He is not to be confused with action-thriller novelist Kent Anderson.