Where did you come up with this idea? What did you hope to achieve by using Red Dead Redemption as both a source and a basis for a book?

Yeah, yeah, it's a crazy story.

I could not have predicted it myself, to be honest with you.

So I very much grew up as a video gamer, came of age in the 1990s and had a gaming PC that I was closer friends with than any other human being.

I spent a lot of time playing Doom and Quake and Half-Life and Starcraft and Warcraft and all that good stuff.

But when I got to college, which was in 2000, I came to the realization that I couldn't continue my obsessive hobby of video gaming and succeed at university.

So I made this fateful decision back in 2000 to quit gaming for what I assumed would be forever.

That's some heavy shit for a video game.