Goodreads asked David Hodges:

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

David Hodges The idea for my last book, 'Target', which was a controversial political thriller set mainly in Northern Ireland, was an idea I had been toying with for some time. I wanted to focus more attention on a key character, rather than just a plot, and to show how a single horrific tragic event can change someone almost overnight and send them on a downward spiral of self-destruction from which there is no escape. As a former policeman, I had seen this happen to people so many times and in the case of my key character here - a vulnerable teenage girl - environment played an integral part in it all, destroying her innocence and turning her into a cold-blooded killer.

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