Goodreads asked Mark Ryan:

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

Mark Ryan It actually evolved out of a short story I began writing about a fictional place in Boston. At the time I was going through lots of movies from the 1970s and reading about the Nixon administration, and wanted to place a story there. My interests in India fused with this story and things seemed to fit well and the plot developed. I'm one of those terrible writers who have no idea where the story is heading until I type.

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