From
http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-westlake-donald.asp:
| BRC: What can you tell us about FIREBREAK, the next Parker
novel to
| be published under your Richard Stark pseudonym?
|
| DW: A firebreak is a small fire set in front of a big fire,
to stop
| the big fire by robbing it of fuel. I wanted to adapt that
idea, by
| having people commit a small robbery, in the course of
which they
| discover, but don't get, something much more valuable. But
the small
| robbery, by forcing an upgrade of defensive systems, makes
the big
| robbery that much harder, or perhaps impossible. I also
wanted Parker to
| operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker.
He's always
| operated in the world without really being with the world,
and
| cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more
living the same
| way.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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