Goodreads asked Shahid Insaf:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Shahid Insaf During my medical school days in the former USSR, I had a psychotic patient named Yuri Makarov who kept insisting that he was the lost, illegitimate son of one of the most decorated Soviet architects, Georgi Makarov. I dismissed his claims as the delusions of a very sick man until I found out that there was indeed a very famous architect named Georgi Makarov who had died under very misterious circumstances. He had a son named Yuri. When I tried to find out details about this, I was stonewalled and essentially stopped from asking more questions. I've often wondered if here was a greater conspiracy and a lot of truth to what my patient claimed. It would be a very intriguing novel to write. Maybe I will someday.

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