Victor Borgeest asked Mark E. Henshaw:

Hi Mark. it's Victor again even though i have lived in Australia for years i was born in China, mother Russian, father American, have been back a number of times also Russia am looking forward to The Fall of Moscow Station, my question do you go in country to research your books ? and are you spot on with your descriptions ? Regards Victor V. Borgeest.

Mark E. Henshaw I wish I could visit all of those locations, but that's unfortunately not possible--I'm not selling *that* many books (yet, I hope). That said, I do interview people who've been to locations I haven't personally visited. For example, some good friends of mine have been to Beihei Park and the Fangshan Restaurant that I describe in Red Cell (they were kind enough to bring me back some copies of the menu). When I can't find anyone who's been to a particular location, I use several other resources to make my descriptions as accurate as possible. If I can't find at least several photographs of the location, I don't use it in my books.

I try to make my books accurate enough that a reader could use them as a guidebook when walking around the cities or inside the buildings I describe. All of the locations, etc that I mention are all real. You can look them up on a map or on Google Earth.

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