Goodreads asked Keith Steinbaum:

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

Keith Steinbaum Although I've recently completed the first draft of my second book, I figure this question applies to my first book, 'The Poe Consequence,' which is published and for sale.

Stories such as War of the Worlds, and Independence Day, are quite intriguing for the scenarios they paint where countries usually at odds with each other are forced to work together for their own mutual survival. I live in Los Angeles, another big city with a large gang problem. What happens if, instead of countries needing to come together for their own mutual survival, two gangs, such as a couple of fictional Bloods & Crips types, found themselves the targets of a serial killer intent on murdering members of both gangs due to a drive-by killing of an innocent bystander? And if this killer was an unstoppable supernatural entity that couldn't be seen or traced by the police, what could these two gangs possibly do?

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