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My goal as a novelist is to create smart entertainment, books that keep bright people up too late, that make them want to read just one more chapter. Books that have ideas threaded in amidst the thrilling bits, ideas that I hope linger even after people close the book.

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I learned to dive in Belize, which is sort of like learning to drive in an Aston Martin. The reefs and refuges are some of the most dramatic in the world. But the real reason I went was to dive the Blue Hole, a 400 ft. sinkhole near Ambergris Caye. Google it, and you'll see why.

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My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.

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I write crime novels and thrillers - I'm a big fan of cops. You can never forget that they run towards what everyone else runs away from.

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A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you've ever tried to write a billboard.

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The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.

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I make no promises every book will be about Chicago, but it's so inspiring. It's a city of such contradictions. I love to write about it.

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I still miss my first car. Not a glamorous ride, but I must've put 60,000 miles in road trips on that thing.

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Part of the fun of writing is having messages. Without them, it's all gunfights and car chases, and none of it means anything.

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My feeling is that the most dangerous people are always those who take a hardline position - and nothing inspires that sort of extremism like difference.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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