Nick Rippington is the award-winning author of gangland and psychological thrillers. The first novel in his Boxer Boys series Crossing the Whitewash received an honourable mention in the genre category in the Writer's Digest 2016 self-published eBook awards. Judges describing it as "Evocative, unique, unfailingly precise and often humorous". The prequel Spark Out was released in July 2017 at the Books Go Social Dublin Writers' Conference, winning a readers' award from Chill With A Book. Readers felt it was "compelling" with an "unexpected twist". The final book in the trilogy Dying Seconds topped the Amazon Chart for Contemporary Urban Fiction giveaways with 350 downloads in two days. The Boxer Boys Collection is now available as a digital box-set and hit the top 20 in the Contemporary Urban Fiction category for paid-for titles. Recently Nick released the psychological thriller Rabette Run followed by a successful blog tour in April 2020. A former Welsh sports editor of the News of the World, Nick now works on the Daily Star sports desk. He is married to Liz and has two daughters. He lives in London.