Robert Gore grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa ​from UCLA with a double major in economics and political science, and from UC Berkeley with graduate degrees in business and law. He held part time jobs throughout undergraduate and graduate school. He is an inactive member of the California Bar Association.

Robert traded bonds in Los Angeles for a Wall Street firm for five years before moving to a Southern California based brokerage. There he became one of the firm’s youngest partners, traded bonds for twenty-two years, managed the fixed income division and proprietary trading desk, and was on the executive committee. In 2012, he retired from finance to write full time.

Robert’s first novel, The Gordian Knot, a legal thriller and courtroom drama, was published in 2000. The Golden Pinnacle, a novel about rags-to-riches Wall Street titan Daniel Durand and his family set during the Industrial Revolution, was published in 2013. It is the first of a projected trilogy centered on generations of the Durand family. Prime Deceit is a political satire that takes dead aim at government, corruption, war, and other idiocies. The Gray Radiance is the second of the Durand family trilogy. Everything I Know About Business I Learned From The Godfather is a compilation of experience and wisdom from his business career and The Godfather novel and movies. Robert writes about economic, political, and cultural issues on his website, Straight Line Logic. He is also the CEO of a high-tech startup, 4Ry Inc.

Robert lives with Luke the cat in Albuquerque, New Mexico.