David Anderson brings his thriller novel The Beachhead to Books We Love. Welcome David!
BWL: How long have you been writing and in what
genres?
DJA: I’ve been writing seriously for about a decade. I write adult thrillers and now YA thrillers. I’m particularly interested in updating some
classic thriller tropes such as man-on-the-run and the classic heist
novel. The Beachhead might be summed up in the cry, “I am not a number, I
am a free man” from the Sixties TV cult series, The Prisoner.
BWL: Where do you get your inspiration?
DJA: From the books I’ve read throughout my life, and
still like to read, and from experience and reflecting upon experience.
BWL: Tell us about your books.
DJA: Earthly
Powers is a novel about old (and new) Nazis and buried
treasure on a remote island. An innocent
man is relentlessly hunted in the depths of the forest while his female partner
is locked in a race against time to uncover a vital artefact. I told you I like modernising classic
thriller tropes!
Meaner
Things is a heist novel centring on a fiendishly
difficult vault robbery. Unlike, say,
the movie Ocean’s Eleven, my heist is
ethical, and also feasible (as it’s based on a true crime that succeeded). I’ve woven in moral quandaries about trust and
humanised it with some good old-fashioned romance.
The Beachhead is a ‘prison break’ kind of thriller, again
revisiting the man-on-the-run trope which I love so much, and again dwelling on
themes of trust/suspicion and the value of teamwork.
BWL: What about your next book? Will it be part of a series or a standalone? Can you give us a taste to whet our
appetites?
DJA: I’m currently working on a sequel to The Beachhead and, simultaneously, an
adult thriller provisionally entitled Shadow
of a Killer. The latter will deal
with guilt, shame and vengeance, and have my usual fast pace and action. I try to push myself harder and further with
each new project I write. My aim is that
both these new novels will blow my readers’ socks off!
BWL: What are your hobbies and interests?
DJA: Reading and philosophy.
BWL: What does the future hold for you?
DJA: Preferably, bestselling author status and several
movie contract offers!
Find David at Books We Love here: http://bookswelove.net/authors/anderson-david/
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