Valerio Ventura

Valerio Ventura is a multi-award-winning artist, and a 2014

Prime-Time Emmy award recipient with more than thirty

years of experience in the film industry.

Born in Rome, Italy, Valerio grew up on the stressed-out

and crime-ridden streets of the Quadraro neighborhood,

near the Cinecitta Film Studios where Fellini and Sergio

Leone made cinematic history.

As a teen, Valerio dreamed of coming to the US. After moving

to California and becoming a US citizen, he devoted

himself to art directing animated shows, and writing and directing

television commercials and music videos. Now he’s

decided to write and publish his own books.

In this first novel in the Akira series, Valerio explores the

world of assassins with razor-sharp action, hyperviolence,

sex, dark humor, and urban poetry.