Well, that’s the end of The Inside Man, and I sincerely hope you enjoyed it.
Since this is book two of a series, I’ll presume that I’ve introduced myself to you before and won’t make you suffer through that sort of tedium again.
However, I did want to talk a bit about my contract with you, the reader.
I write to entertain.
That truly is my first and primary goal. Because, for most people, that’s what they want out of a novel.
That’s certainly what I always wanted. Story first, always.
Now, don’t get me wrong, there are all sorts of perfectly valid reasons to be reading, and in fact, I get a huge kick out of it when people tell me that they kept on having to look things up to see if they were real, and being shocked to learn that they were.
For me, I do take pride in trying to give people entertainment, while attempting to stay as true to the science and technology as possible. And if the novel is inspired by real events in some way, like this one, I try to provide verifiable excerpts that allow readers a bit more insight into the facts of the subjects covered in the story.
When my stories contain topics that have possible controversy or ones with potentially polarizing opinions associated with them (e.g. GMO) I never take a position as the author. I let the characters play out their roles and make no advocacies. However, I do endeavor to lay out the facts as they exist for the reader to ultimately draw their own conclusions.
So far, I’ve covered broken arrow incidents (See Perimeter for that), the potential disasters of uncontrolled genetic modification (Darwin’s Cipher), and in this novel, child sex trafficking.
Some have called my choices eclectic, unexpected, but the vast majority of feedback I’ve received to date has thankfully been positive. So, thank you for that. Posting reviews is, of course, the easiest way to let me and others know what you thought of this novel or any of my work. Word of mouth is precious to us poor authors.
However, even though I enjoy writing about events, history, science especially, my primary goal always circles back to entertaining.
I do hope you enjoyed this story, and I hope you’ll continue to join me in the future stories yet to come.
Mike Rothman
March 29, 2019