Goodreads asked Andrew Timothy Post:

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

Andrew Timothy Post I lived in South Korea for four nonconsecutive years, during which time I learned about the General Sherman incident of 1866. I was a fan of books such as Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and "The Sand Pebbles" by Richard McKenna, and I knew I wanted to do something similar. So as soon as I read about what had happened to the General Sherman and her crew on the Daedong River in Pyongyang in 1866, I knew that I had the makings for a story that I'd been yearning to tell. The obscurity of the actual event meant that (a) nobody had ever written about it before and (b) nobody could call me on the carpet for any historical inaccuracies.

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