Goodreads asked Darren Greer:

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

Darren Greer I got the idea for this book while living in San Francisco in 2010. There I befriended the owner of a pornography company. His friends included street hustlers, university professors, an ex-FBI agent, film-makers and gay American reactionaries. He was a fascinating man, but dark and subversive. There was, at the time, not a single photograph of him in existence, despite his fame. I began to think about getting drawn into the dark world of the pornographer. Of getting approached, obliquely, by such a man in order to be recruited into his strange cabal. What would happen if a man like me started to receive a jumble of codes and secret messages, to be seduced out of his life into an underground world of unknown purpose? I wrote Outcast then, to answer this question.

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