Dangerous Reality
"I have a bizarre rolodex, full of navy seals, spies, and consultants I've met over the course of seven books," says thriller writer Gregg Hurwitz. "I have this weird experience to draw on and a weird set of friends.'
Thinking about this strange collection of people and circumstances in his life, he wondered: "What would happen if I woke up in my own thriller?"
Look for the answer in Hurwitz's newest book, The Crime Writer, featuring protagonist Drew Danner, a crime novelist who wakes up in a hospital bed with a head scar and no memory of committing a crime he is accused of committing. The night before, Danner was found convulsing over his ex-fianc's body, a knife in his hand and her blood under his fingernails.
Danner must reconstruct the truth and find his way back to sanity. In the process he discovers that many people around him are flawed. "The book deals with a lot of people who are damaged," says Hurwitz.
To piece together reality and figure out what's real and what's not, Tanner begins writing. The first paragraph he writes is the opening paragraph in The Crime Writer.
Hurwitz also wanted to explore how one's professional life and personal life overlap and warp reality. "When I was writing the book, I was on the phone with sheriffs and then I would take my wife-whose father is Robert Blake-to her father's murder trial."
Gregg Hurwitz is the critically acclaimed, #1 L.A. Times bestselling author. His novels have been feature selections for all four major literary book clubs, chosen as Book Sense Picks, and translated into thirteen languages. He has written screenplays for Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Paramount Studios, MGM, and ESPN, developed TV series for Warner Studios, and written comics for Marvel. Crime Writer is his eighth novel.
