Richard Fountain (born June 16, 1967 in Wichita, KS) is an American mystery and suspense thriller novelist best known for his debut 2008 novel The Wellwishers. Early Life and Career Fountain graduated in 1993 from Northeastern University with a degree in marketing. Over the next decade he held a number of marketing and communications positions for companies in electronics manufacturing, software, and microbial diagnostics industries. At the age of 34, after years of writing for others, he decided to become a writer himself. Inspired by his twin daughters, he wrote his first novel The Wellwishers. The Wellwishers The Wellwishers follows John Gideon, a CIA operative, and Natalie Reyes of the FBI as they fight to save a gifted set of twins known as wellwishers. Kept in extreme isolation these sisters have a unique gift - whatever they wish for together comes to pass in reality - and controlling them has been the cause and crusade of many world leaders. As the twins become more difficult to command, it is Gideon and Reyes who step in as their protectors, beginning a thrilling standoff against greed and domination. "Mélange of political thriller, XFiles-ish science fiction and romance…some strange doings at Kulbeda Station..." The Wellwishers (ISBN 1-57072-326-5) is published by Silver Dagger Mysteries, an imprint of the Overmountain Press.
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