Goodreads asked Ed Kovacs:

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

Ed Kovacs I had met and married a beautiful, highly educated, funny, and very strong-willed Asian lady who was so opposite the stereotype of the submissive Asian female, so I wanted to put such a character into an action-thriller. So I wrote a screenplay called Asian Bride, and it almost got produced. Then, years later, I decided to turn it into a novel, but my Asian Bride morphed into a smart, strong Russian woman.

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