Holly asked Roderick Vincent:

Hi Roderick!! Where did your idea to write The Cause come from?

Roderick Vincent Thanks Holly for your question. You're the very first since I turned this widget on so I appreciate that :-)

Without peeking here http://roderickvincent.wordpress.com/..., as that would be cheating, I'll tell you. The idea really came after my first novel titled, "Blueprints from the Beginning" which is still on the shelf waiting for the sunlight to hit it once again. One of the critiques of this book (which was a valid one) was that it had a slow-moving plot. So I knew for my second book, first and foremost I wanted to write something plot-driven. I was toying with the idea of how to write a pseudo-spy novel that would have more of a literary, dystopian slant. At the time, Greece was having riots and the EU was debating kicking it out of the European Union. Having great concern of the direction the U.S. was heading, I asked myself the question, what if the U.S. was in such a situation where the economy had collapsed, where the government had become even more nefarious. At that time, the Edward Snowden revelations on the NSA hadn't hit, but I was well aware of what was going on in the NSA. Finally, I asked myself what one event could change everything. The answer led me to the plot, where the CIA is infiltrated by the CIA themselves, field operatives being turned to "The Cause" at The Abattoir, a fictional Blackwater type of off-the-grid blackops camp. Whether these Minutemen are patriots or traitors, I hopefully leave for the reader to decide. I hope this helps answer your question a bit. Now I'll peek at what I wrote before :-) Thanks again for your question.

All the best,
Roderick

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