Goodreads asked karl levy:

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

karl levy Outlined in the Preface to Sinarth, at the Beginning,

In early 2012, while riding a bike in Vang Vieng, Laos, with a fellow traveller, a Canadian girl by the name of Natalie Rock, I conceived the idea for this book. Stopping my bike on one of the dusty roads leading out of town, Natalie circled around while I picked up my mobile phone and called Sinarth, whom I had met several weeks before at the Cambodian War Museum in Siem Reap. He responded to my offer to write his biography by saying that he was thinking exactly the same thing and, coincidently, had been just about to call me.

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