Goodreads asked Mark Logie:

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

Mark Logie It was a combination of two news items in 2004 that inspired "Deadfall" (a young-adult thriller about cyber-terrorism): a computer virus (called, I think, "Iloveyou"!) doing the rounds and the Madrid train bombings. The surge of fear I felt on hearing about the explosions on packed trains fused with a feeling that I wanted to tackle terrorism in a fresh way that would appeal to teenagers and older children.

Terrorists using a computer virus to cause mayhem in the not-too-distant future was what I came up with.

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