Goodreads asked K. Lang-Slattery:

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

K. Lang-Slattery I met my father's younger brother for the first time when I was an adult, but once we met, we stayed in touch. Sometime in the 1990s, I asked him about his wartime experiences. When I learned of his role as an interrogator of German prisoners and his later work as an investigator for the Nuremberg Trials, I knew I had to tell his story. Over more than a decade, I recorded hours of interviews with my uncle and other relatives, did extensive research, and finally met and talked to many Ritchie Boys (men, who, like my uncle, trained during World War II for US Army intelligence at Camp Ritchie, Maryland.) This process was a time of discovery that led to my novel, Immigrant Soldier.

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