Goodreads asked Jonathan Macpherson:

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

Jonathan Macpherson It was a collision of two ideas. First, I had the idea of a cop who is implanted with a bugging device and is forced to spy on his colleagues. That device evolved into a high tech camera/taser/microphone that provided live feed to the bad guys, who could kill him instantly if he made a wrong move.

I had also recently read a lot of news stories about drug mules who'd been arrested. Not one of them had a really good reason for taking such a risk, especially in countries that carry the death penalty for that crime. I asked myself what would be a good reason for doing something like that? The only thing I could think of was to save someone else's life, a child's life.
So I had a cop, a drug mule, and then the crime syndicate behind the drug mule came and the story came from there. So it was the intersection of a couple of ideas.

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