Welcome to this special episode of the Danger Close Podcast.

Over the next few weeks I'll be answering listener and viewer questions about the novels and the lead up to the publication of Red Sky

Morning, available June 18th, 2024.

Will there be spoilers?

Absolutely.

Be sure and stay tuned after the Q&A

to listen to Ray Porter, read the prologue.

This episode, The Danger Close Podcast, is brought to you by Bravo Company Manufacturing. Here we go. Little Q&A on True Believer. Each of my novels has a theme. The first book, The Terminal

List, was a novel of revenge without constraint. The second novel, True Believer

was not one of, was one of violent redemption. I started off with a one-word theme, redemption,

and very quickly added violent redemption to that.

And I find that having a theme helps guide the writing process

because everything has to go back to that theme,

whether it's directly or more importantly indirectly. So this was a story of violent

redemption. And from Instagram, this is from B. Barlow. What sort of research went into the African details? The details and true believer of the hunting section were my favorite part from any of the books. I would love a whole hunting series. I actually hear that quite a bit and I was already writing the second novel, already writing True Believer before I'd even sent the first one to Simon and Schuster.

So I didn't have an agent, didn't have a publisher.

I always knew that I was going to write two books.

And I think I got that from John Grisham, who wrote time to kill first and he couldn't give that book

away and then he wrote The Firm and that one takes off, becomes an international bestseller.

Tom Cruz stars in the movie, then they go back and make the first book into a movie

starring Matthew McConaughey and he was on track for one legal thriller every

year so I thought if John Grisham had gotten discouraged after the sales of the first book and didn't write the firm,

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