Goodreads asked Stan Parish:

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

Stan Parish The idea for LOVE AND THEFT came to me from a hometown true-crime story. I grew up near the Princeton Airport, a one-horse operation across from a strip mall in suburban New Jersey. There was a rumor that the brief runway and cluster of hangars were the entry point for a drug trafficking operation in the 80s and 90s, which sounded like a suburban legend to me. And then my brother took a job with a local criminal attorney, a Boston-bred hard case who’d defended the Gambino crime family back in the day. According to my brother’s new boss, the airport drug ring had shut down abruptly decades earlier, but the legend was real. I started asking around. A friend’s father told me the local cops were involved; my dentist had cleaned the teeth of a pilot who flew kilos in from Caribbean islands. The idea of hardened criminals hiding in plain sight in my hometown inspired the protagonist of “Love and Theft,” Alex Cassidy, leader of an armed robbery crew who lays low in pastoral Central Jersey between jobs in Las Vegas, Marseilles, and Macau.

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