Goodreads asked Mark Hazard:

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

Mark Hazard Corus and the Case of the Corruption (Book 2 in the Corus series) deals with two crimes roughly thirty years apart. The first is described in the opening sequence. The second happens at a Tech company in the months before Corus books pick up the story. I always knew I wanted the crime Corus dealt with in book two to have something to do with computers and technology, but the idea to link that to another historical crime in the 80s probably came from watching the TV show Halt and Catch Fire, which is a very good show about the dawn of personal computing in the 80s and the dastardly efforts competing firms made to be first to market with next gen products. When I was younger the program Pirates of Silicon Valley also fascinated me, and that certainly contributed some too.

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