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Michael Slade
Hi Keith.
The glib answer is "a lifetime." But that's also the best answer. Every thriller, in some way, comes out of my childhood. If a subject interested me as a boy, it still interests me today.
For instance, gladiators hooked me in Grade 4 (age 9) and I've added to that knowledge ever since. So there's where the Roman scenes in BURNT BONES originate.
On top of that, however, I took a research trip to Britain, saw Stonehenge, and climbed all over Hadrian's Wall. (And picked up a dozen non-fiction texts at Foyles on Charing Cross Road.)
ZOMBIE (EVIL EYE) took me to Africa, and BED OF NAILS into the cannibal caves on Atiu, one of the Cook Islands.
And then there's the local library - which I've haunted since I was 9 - and now, the Internet.
A major reason why I had to do HEADHUNTER Reimagined ...
http://www.specialx.net/specialxdotne...
... was to work in what I've learned online since that book was originally published in 1984.
Slade
The glib answer is "a lifetime." But that's also the best answer. Every thriller, in some way, comes out of my childhood. If a subject interested me as a boy, it still interests me today.
For instance, gladiators hooked me in Grade 4 (age 9) and I've added to that knowledge ever since. So there's where the Roman scenes in BURNT BONES originate.
On top of that, however, I took a research trip to Britain, saw Stonehenge, and climbed all over Hadrian's Wall. (And picked up a dozen non-fiction texts at Foyles on Charing Cross Road.)
ZOMBIE (EVIL EYE) took me to Africa, and BED OF NAILS into the cannibal caves on Atiu, one of the Cook Islands.
And then there's the local library - which I've haunted since I was 9 - and now, the Internet.
A major reason why I had to do HEADHUNTER Reimagined ...
http://www.specialx.net/specialxdotne...
... was to work in what I've learned online since that book was originally published in 1984.
Slade
Michael Slade
HEADHUNTER Reimagined is an all-new telling of the first Special X thriller, published in 1984.
Because that novel was based on my practice of criminal law, much of what it "foresaw" played out in real life over the following decades. Also, the Internet offered research unavailable before.
So, with 20/20 hindsight, here's The History of Michael Slade and HEADHUNTER Reimagined:
http://www.specialx.net/specialxdotne...
Because that novel was based on my practice of criminal law, much of what it "foresaw" played out in real life over the following decades. Also, the Internet offered research unavailable before.
So, with 20/20 hindsight, here's The History of Michael Slade and HEADHUNTER Reimagined:
http://www.specialx.net/specialxdotne...
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