Goodreads asked Max Power:

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

Max Power Larry Flynn came from an interview I heard on Irish radio. It was only a few minutes that I heard in the car but the entire story evolved from there. Basically the man being interviewed served in the Irish army in 1943 and he was explaining how he was sent off with his comrades to a field in the middle of nowhere in County Tipperary in Ireland to build an airstrip. It was never used to his knowledge and there was an urgency and an air of mystery surrounding the project. From this I imagined an aircraft landing and who might be on it. It took some research, but even so I didn't want my story to be a historical piece so I developed Larry Flynn as the main character and set the story in near present day Dublin. He was essentially the victim or at least in his mind of what occurred in 1943 and it ruined his life. I gave him an opportunity on deaths door to get revenge for what happened and at the heart of the book is how he sets a chain of events in motion by his actions that result in mayhem and devastation to those around him.

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