Ted Lapkin

Ted Lapkin spent the first half of his childhood in North Carolina before his Jewish family moved to Israel. He saw active service as a combat intelligence officer in the Golani Infantry Brigade, fighting with the brigade’s elite recon company during the battle for the Beaufort Castle.

Graduating summa cum laude from Tel Aviv University, Ted returned to the United States for postgraduate study and began to work in politics as a communications/government-relations strategist, working in Washington D.C. Moving to Melbourne, he began a PHD (never finished) and began to write political opinion columns for Australian newspapers. Since then he has written for many publications, including the Spectator, LA Times and the Sydney Morning Herald, as well as speeches for members of the US Congress and Australian Government Cabinet Ministers. He now runs his own consulting firm that advises clients on strategic communications, reputation management and government relations.

Ted lives in the Melbourne inner suburb of Fitzroy, described by London’s 'Daily Telegraph' newspaper as one of “the world’s most ‘hipster’ neighbourhoods.” RIGHTEOUS KILL is his first novel.