Goodreads asked Andrew Bridgeman:

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

Andrew Bridgeman The first seed of FORTUNATE SON came out of a childhood memory—a miserable day when I was 13. I was bullied at school. I didn't make the baseball team. A teacher embarrassed me in front of my classmates. My mom had been cruel. I remember staring out my bedroom window, wishing that someone would ring the doorbell and tell me that there'd been some mistake. I was in the wrong place and they'd come to take me to a different school, a different family, where I'd fit in and everything would be great. It was an odd recollection to have in my 50's, but it started something. I played around with that idea. What would have brought them to the door? Switched at birth (boring)? Was it a long-ago kidnapping they'd just solved (interesting)? What kind of kidnapping? Well, I write thrillers so it would have to be the Crime of the Century, right? And then, I spent a long time thinking about what it would be like if my character was a shy guy in his mid-twenties, living a smallish life when the FBI came to him and told him everything he believed about himself was a lie. That's when the story started rolling and unfolding in crazy and surprising ways right before eyes! Thanks for the question.

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