Franc asked Olen Steinhauer:

This might be the most randomly specific question you get: In Nearest Exit:"There’s a woman in Stockholm.... Buy her and yourself a ticket to Moscow and make sure she gets to 12 Trubnaya ulica." When I read this I worked on the 8th floor of 12 Trubnaya ul. You can imagine my surprise. How'd you come up with that address & what kind of dodgy spy stuff was going on in our building?) Thanks, can't wait for the new one!

Olen Steinhauer Ha! You'd be surprised by how specific some questions get, but this is a really specific one. I do sometimes add "wink-wink" details to my books, so it would be a fair guess that 12 Trubnaya ulica meant something. But in this case I simply wanted specificity and chose that building. However, you'd also be surprised how often little random details later turn out to either be "true" in some interesting way, or at least surprisingly appropriate. So maybe there were some spy shenanigans going on at 12 Trubnaya ulica...

Thank you!

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