It then took many years to come up with an answer, and the confidence to tell the story, but what a story it is. Why, I asked myself, what could possibly be the reason?’ ‘I read a newspaper account of a man who had served a long prison sentence, but escaped the day before he was due to be released. Robotham’s renowned for taking a snippet from real life and building his novels around the ‘what if’ questions that tweak his interest, and he does so again in Life or Death: More importantly, it’s the book that I was meant to write.’ It’s a love story and a prison story and a heart-stopping account of one man’s refusal to surrender. That’s why I’m so excited about Life or Death. ‘It took me years to come up with an answer and even longer before I felt I had the skills to tell the story properly. Michael Robotham’s latest novel, published ten years after his first, was more than 20 years in the making. One of Australia’s great storytellers: Michael Robotham’s crime fiction and the tantalising premise of his new novel.
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