Goodreads asked Sam Diego:

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

Sam Diego The idea for my most recent book came to me from everyday life in the United States. It was 2016 I think, and I had just heard about yet another murder of an African American by a law enforcement officer.

The news made me livid. How many such murders can there be year after year, and we go about our lives as though nothing happened?

I felt helpless as a middle class cog with little power to bring about change. I felt threatened belonging to an ethnic - though not racial - minority myself. Most of all I could not tolerate my boiling rage any longer, triggered and fueled by plain and simple injustice.

My first work of fiction is an expression of my deeply felt anger and sense of injustice in response to the serial killings of African Americans and other minorities by law enforcement officers.

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