Goodreads asked R.J. Dearden:

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

R.J. Dearden I had the idea for "The Realignment Case" on a trip to Geneva on a totally unofficial tour of the United Nations with a friend. I passed by sleeping diplomats, hushed meetings and rearranged the country tags in the black conference room. Did you know UN employees don't pay any tax - at all? So I started imagining what would happen if I invented my own secret organisation in Geneva, what sort of people would work there and what they would get up to? How if they had a powerful tool, what they might do with that power? In my mind, "The Department" is a mix of the UN, Cern and FIFA. Like one of those organisations it is riddled with corruption, like another, it is full of good intentions, and like another, it is stuffed full of brilliant scientists.

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