Goodreads asked NADIA MADDY:

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

NADIA MADDY I went on holiday to Sierra Leone after the war was over and then came back to London and watched Blood Diamond which was a very true reflection on what had happened in the country. Someone called me and pointed out that a South African mercenary wouldn't date an American journalist . It struck me that the mercenaries I saw in the nightclubs while on holiday in Sierra Leone would much rather be with the local women but they were poorer and not from the middle classes. I knew this was something that no one living in the west was aware of.

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