Scare Me To Death

times and for a while, I stalled. How could I write a contemporary thriller without mentioning coronavirus? I didn’t want to dwell on the pandemic or second guess how things might pan out, so I decided to set it the year before everything kicked off.

Before I send the manuscript to my editor, I normally walk the areas where I’ve set the book. Thanks to lockdown this wasn’t possible and I had to rely on memory (never particularly reliable) and Google Maps. Any errors will be mine!

I got the inspiration for this story when I read a book with a similar title to mine: Scared to Death: from BSE to global warming, why scares are costing us the earth. Before reading it, I’d had little idea how ‘scares’ have become one of the most prominent and damaging aspects of our modern world, or how much they cost us. It showed how a small public concern – like a UK health minister claiming there was salmonella in British eggs – can balloon practically overnight into a full-blown scare that can dramatically change people’s behaviour.

It got me thinking. Who would orchestrate such a thing? Who would have the gall? And how would they profit from it? The ramifications were huge, and launched me straight into the story.

Like a lot of novels, this one has many elements of the truth, including a fake bomb detector seller who was jailed for ten years in 2013. He is thought to have made £50 million from sales of more than seven thousand of the fake devices to countries including Iran, Thailand and Saudi Arabia.

Aerotoxic syndrome is as I describe it in the book, and although many in the aviation industry are adamant that it doesn’t exist, there are others who believe it is responsible for long-term sickness, and even death.

Thanks for your interest in my book, and I hope you’ll return to enjoy further adventures of Dan Forrester and Lucy Davies!

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