Thriller/Espionage
Date Published: 07-04-2025
Publisher: Logikal Solutions
Interview with Roland Hughes
What is your favorite part of the book?
Honestly, the entire thing. After I finished this book I started cleaning up old backup files. They went back to 2008. This book had a lot of starts and stops. Old Timer wasn’t even in the early stuff. In the end, his character screamed the loudest and had the most interesting things to say.
Does your book have a lesson? Moral?
Yes, What goes up doesn’t always come down. Assumptions are what get people killed. Assume nothing.
The vast majority of the human race assumes hired killers are monsters. There is something mentally wrong with them. They cannot have compassion, ethics, or dignity.
We send Marines to kill people to. You don’t think that about them. Assumptions are what get people killed.
Are your characters based off real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
Every one of the characters was based on at least one, sometimes more than one, person I’ve met over the course of my life. Do I happen to know a bunch of hired killers? No. That isn’t what gives characters depth.
Of all the characters you have created, which is your favorite and why?
That changes with every novel. Old Timer was my favorite through most of this book. Pretty Little Thing found her way to my heart and, currently, has a big role in the sequel.
What character in your book are you least likely to get along with?
Having spent nearly four decades as a traveling IT consultant I have to say I could get along with all of them in a “work setting,” however we define that these days. HR would be the most difficult though. She absolutely hates my gender.
What would the main character in your book have to say about you?
What took you so long? I was talking to you for years.
Do you want each book to stand on its own, or are you trying to build a body of work with connections between each book?
I generally start out stand alone. Even in my trilogies each title is more or less stand alone. The sequel (whenever I get it done) to this novel will be the first time in my career where I handed anything off to the next volume. Will it become a trilogy or series? That’s up to the characters. I just write what they tell me.
About the Author
When he is not consulting or writing geek books for his award winningThe Minimum You Need to Know technical book series or helping out on the family farm, he writes novels and blog posts. You can find him on logikalblog.com and interestingauthors.com/blog
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