Goodreads asked Danie Markgraaff:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Danie Markgraaff This is always a difficult question to answer. Any writer would tell you that their minds are consistently working on new ideas or transforming events around us into stories and characters. Painting pictures with words. My latest novel was based on three short stories I have published on Amazon – A Snipers Dream, A Sniper’s Call, And A Sniper’s Redemption. The first short story was based on a question – What if I create a sniper who finds him or her in a position for an assassination, but then woke up to find it was a dream – or was it? And the reader never knows who the sniper really was. The idea came up to combine the trilogy into a novel, but it was not meant to be, so I decided to create a whole new story around this imaginary character but in a covert career in South African context. Farm murders in South Africa is an ugly reality. I decided to use the ugliness of that sad truth in our history to kick off the story of Erin McBride and how she got into an assassination career and how she eventually struggle with all the moral questions in her heart to find significance back into her life.

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