The Predicament

Yeah, certainly.

I mean, for the second novel, The Predicament, which I had neglected to ask you about last time, was the, um, the involvement...

And, and you're right, as you say, you know, with the '60s, you've got all this wonderful history to, to come, I suppose.

But in The Predicament, although it's not a main feature, there is the Kennedy assassination, which plays a sort of plot point, uh, quite an important one in the, in the novel.

And I wanted to ask you w- where you stand on the whole Kennedy assassination theory.

Well, I am a conspiracy theorist, absolutely.

And in, in my novel, uh, 'cause, 'cause there were two other attempts on Kennedy's life before Dallas, one in LA, one in Miami, uh, which were aborted or, or, uh, thwarted.

Um, people were trying to kill him, and they eventually got him in Dallas.

So it's not necessarily the end, is it? Or is it?

absolutely not no i'll be writing more novels for sure um i left it open and you know we were only at 1964 so there's a lot of the cold war left to run and um you know i'm not my next novel won't be a gabriel dax novel it's one would be one of my whole life novels but then after that i think i'll return to to the brand and uh because i've got lots of ideas of historical situations I can plonk him down in.

And it's, you know, I really enjoy writing them and because they're spy novels with extras, as I call them, there's a lot of literary stuff in there as well.

So it's a rich, rich brew.

Yes, certainly.

I mean, for the second novel, The Predicament, which I had neglected to ask you about last time, was the involvement.

And you're right, as you say, you know, with the 60s, you've got all this wonderful history to come, I suppose.

But in The Predicament, although it's not a main feature, there is the Kennedy assassination, which plays a sort of plot point, quite an important one in the novel.