J. Sydney Jones interview in THE BIG THRILL
There's a great interview up at The Big Thrill with J. Sydney Jones about his latest novel, the Cold War mystery Basic Law.
Here's a sneak peek:
In light of your inspiration, what kind of research did you do for BASIC LAW?
BASIC LAW is lived history. Very little research was needed as I lived in Vienna for much of the time depicted in the novel. I also lived in France, Italy, and Greece—Crete comes in for some nice play in this novel, as I spent numerous happy months there from the late ’60s to the mid-80s. So this was not so much a matter of digging in the archives as is necessary for the Viennese Mysteries, but rather of digging into my own experiences and remembrances. Not that this is an autobiographical work at all, but that the historical events were something I lived through and also wrote about as a freelance journalist. When I use such personal experiences for the Viennese Mysteries they must first be filtered through a historic/linguistic time machine to avoid prolepses.
See the rest of the interview here.
