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Jeffery Deaver

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 6, 1950

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

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So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

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To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

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I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

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Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

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Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

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I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.

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Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

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In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

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Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

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When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

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I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.

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In suspense novels even subplots about relationships have to have conflict.

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For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

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Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

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The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

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My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

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I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

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Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

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I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

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