Lynn asked Dennis M. Banahan:

I've come to know that cops don't like to talk about their jobs as police officers. Did you experience any kind of personal difficulty when writing crime novels?

Dennis M. Banahan Hi Lynn, thanks for your question, and it's a good one. Yes, I experienced some difficulty writing crime novels. Someone described police work as thirty years of boredom, and fifteen minutes of sheer terror. I found almost the opposite to be true. There's a thin line in my books between fact and fiction. There has to be enough action and realism to be of interest to the general public, but I can't cross too far over the line because I'd lose my police readers. My police characters aren't superheroes; they have flaws just like everybody else. So, I find myself sometimes walking the tightrope to make the book entertaining to everyone.

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