My running, not-so-funny joke about writingBlamed is that this is the book that put me on the international watchlists. In the space of one weekend of research, I Googled “biochemical weapons,” “black-market arms organizations,” “assault rifles,” and “Afghanistan-Pakistan border towns.” And that’s only the beginning; as theBlood Money series progresses, I have no doubt my research will continue to flag the attention of whomever the poor soul is who’s in charge of monitoring authors’ Internet...