Robert Devereux

Robert Devereux is a communications professional with decades of experience shaping messages.

A classic movie buff, he brings a cinematic eye to every page he writes.

He lives in Arizona, with his wife. They have two grown children and two grandchildren who keep him grounded and inspired every day.

The St. Jude Protocol is his debut novel.

Living through COVID-19, and hearing every conspiracy theory that came with it, set my imagination running. In April 2023, I started sketching the story as a limited TV series. Without a track record, though, I knew that would be a hard pitch. So I took the deep dive and wrote it as a near-future conspiracy thriller instead.

I pulled ideas from real-life headlines and let my imagination take over from there. I love a good suspense story, and I care just as much about the characters caught inside it. My own background shaped both of my leads. Years in communications gave me Bill Archer, a corporate communications executive whose job is shaping the message. My long-ago days as a small-market TV reporter gave me Erica Walker, a journalist determined to find out what that message is hiding.

I also wanted to include just a drop of my Catholic faith. St. Jude is the patron saint of impossible causes, and that felt like the right name for a story about ordinary people taking on an impossible fight.