Goodreads asked Adam Wasserman:

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

Adam Wasserman I was sitting in the pub with some friends I sometimes play roleplaying games with. One of them was trying to explain the concept behind "Paranoia". This is a game that takes place in an underground world run by a computer. I was captivated by the notion because the players are not only rewarded for lying and betraying each other, but they are constantly being placed in situations where the only escape is failure and certain death. The futility of their puny little lives combined with the paradox of pledging allegiance to the very power that inevitably destroys them struck me as the perfect setting for a novel I wanted to write. After all, although not to such an extreme degree, here in the real world we like to pretend we are better, more wholesome human beings than we actually are. In our professional lives, we are often rewarded for stabbing our colleagues in the back, or firing hundreds of employees we will never know, mere numbers on a piece of paper, causing them real harm in the hope of a year-end bonus or a promotion. I wanted to shine a light on the friction between our desire to feel good about ourselves and the selfish choices we sometimes make with negative consequences for others. Of course, the Bunker - the world I created to tell my stories in - is a darkly humorous place. The books wouldn't be palatable otherwise. I enjoy comedy, so in making myself laugh, I thought I'd help you laugh, too.

There are currently two novels in the Bunker series, "Thank You For Your Cooperation" and "Your Call Is Important To Us". A third will appear sometime soon.

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