BAIT AND SWITCH TACTICS

Bait and Switch Tactics are a means to keep your reader on the edge of her seat with gripping fear for your characters' lives. What you'll want to do is isolate your characters, then write scenes in each person's viewpoint with a cliffhanger at the end of each sequence.

Take my main characters in SILVER SERENADE, for example. Silver is an assassin whose assignment is to kill Bluth, the leader of Tyrone's Marauders. Jace, a hunted criminal, needs the terrorist alive to prove his innocence...