Are all of the electronic surveillance methods used in HOSTILE INTENT in use in the real world?
MW: Some, yes, although others are logical extrapolations of technology that already exists or is in the works. I’ve come in for something of a beating from some of the hostile Amazon “reviewers” who have mistakenly taken me to task for a reference to the Large Hadron Collider, but the fact is that it, and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence project can and do enlist and link computers all over the world; heck, even the Sony PS3 game machines can use downtime to solve complex protein folding problems. One of the sad things about the death of newspapers and professional reviewers is that any author is now subject to comments from anonymous trolls with axes to grind. BRC: You quote Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (writing as Sherlock Holmes) and Marcus Aurelius throughout HOSTILE INTENT. I assume that they have had some influence over your work and career. What other authors, if any, have influenced you over the course of your life? MW: I’m an active Sherlockian and long have been — S
