Goodreads asked Jack Slater:

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

Jack Slater That's complicated. I was working on a thriller which included, as one of the secondary characters, a police detective and the editor I was working with said, 'You should write a crime novel.' So we talked it over. She threw out some ideas. I thought this was the best of them, but it didn't go anywhere for a while because it didn't feel like it was mine until I came up with Pete Gayle as a character. Then everything started to fall into place.

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