Goodreads asked Michael Gerhartz:

How do you get inspired to write?

Michael Gerhartz I read a few books in the same genre, and I was always disappointed that the hero(s) always seemed to have unlimited financial funds, were bullet proof and could take on all their enemies without help. I find those stories entertaining, but not very realistic. I tried to create more human like characters, who have bills to pay and bleed if they get shot at. I also wanted to incorporate issues that matter to me, as in THIN ICE, the whole book story plays in the North West Passage, with global warming hanging over the book all the time. DARK TIMES is different. It talks about the child abuse scandal through the church, human trafficking and white supremacists who want to fight global terrorism.

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