In fact, I’m usually so raring to get going after weeks of research that the beginning just flies by. The middle! I know that is a bit of a cop out, but I never have a problem with the beginning. I try to get on and off of those websites as quickly as possible.ĭo you find it harder to write beginnings or endings? Which do you change more?
I spend a lot of time going through the obituaries and a couple of sites online that, quite frankly, scare me because they not only provide a name, they provide a fake address, age and other information. Readers have emailed me about these names, how much they’ve liked them. The same is true of the villain in The Last Agent, Adam Efimov. My two Russian agents, Victor Federov and Arkady Volkov are memorable but not too hard to pronounce. I’m always amazed that readers pick up the names of my characters and use them as if they know them. So The Last Agent lets the reader know that Jenkins is going to resort to the training he learned decades before and go back into the lion's den to try and succeed.Ī lot. Jenkins is one of the dinosaurs, still willing to go back into Russia, still believing that he can survive on his wits and complete the mission. Jenkins has experience and intuitiveness, which are becoming extinct. The CIA has changed with technology and requires less and less boots-on-the-ground agents. In The Last Agent Jenkins has to go back into Moscow to try to rescue a woman responsible for saving him in The Eighth Sister.
The title really should intrigue the reader and provide the reader with an understanding of the basic premise of the novel. Of my 20 novels, I’ve only titled perhaps 5 that were not ultimately changed, for the better. How much work does your title do to take readers into the story? Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series. Stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, and the literary novel, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell as well as the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The author of The Charles Jenkins espionage series, and the David Seattle, which has sold more than 6 million books worldwide. Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series set in
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