Goodreads asked Andy Luke:

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

Andy Luke I was living in a flat below two thick hoodlums. They'd collect their benefits and spend it on tabloids and crack, which they smuggled home in their cracks. We're not talking about craic here. It was around the time of Nelson McCauseland's embroilment in the Red Sky and Giant's causeway fiascos, (Horatio McCarrick is pretty much based on Nelson). when I was on the loo in some deep meditation. When I flushed the chain, the urinal rebelled in a freak monsoon spewing turd and piss and covering the bathroom floor. The tortured jailbaits above me had let out some suppository which got blocked in the pipe. From dark sewage, Spide: The Lost Tribes was formed, and filtered repeatedly over the years to a much lighter comedy.

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