Goodreads asked Sorayya Khan:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Sorayya Khan The seed for City of Spies comes from a small moment in my life. When I was 17, around the time Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto was hanged, my father read aloud a tiny item from an Urdu newspaper. In it, a father described the young son he'd just buried as a big fan of Prime Minister Z.A. Bhutto whom, the boy once predicted, would live a long life that would correspond with the boy's -- instead, the Prime Minister was dead and so, too, was the son. I remember being struck by the story, and when I began to write, the boy in the newspaper account took on a life of its own.

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