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NRB: The quote is repeated in many books: “Everybody has one person out there. One bullet. And if you’re lucky in life, you get to meet that person. And once you do, once you’re shot through the heart, then there’s nobody else. No matter what happens-nobody else can ever come close. That’s the single bullet theory.” Can you explain how you came up with this great quote? What was your inspiration?
Connelly: My wife first postulated the idea to me. I have a chain around my neck with a bullet on it. Her name is on it. She gave it to me. It came from there, the idea being that no relationship is perfect but some I think, you know, are meant to go the distance no matter what.
NRB: Did you write this book to spur interest in the differences between a defense attorney and a prosecutor’s psyche?
Connelly: No, I love the character of Mickey Haller and so I was looking for a way of bringing him back in a book but in a new and hopefully interesting way. I try to write from a basis of reality. The reality is that defense attorneys rarely have a completely innocent client. So I can’t write a bunch of Haller books where the client is innocent. It’s not reality. So I need to come up with alternate ideas that still show him and his skills off in court. This was one of them.
NRB: Since you write such descriptive characters that the reader either likes/dislikes, is that how you try to get your story across?
Connelly: Well, certainly I hope the characters are what carry the story. I want the readers to be riding with my protagonist and enjoy the trip even though they don’t know where the car is going to take them.
NRB: What is your next project?
Connelly: I am back at it with Mickey Haller again. Mickey has moved into an area of foreclosure defense because it is the growth industry in law. But one case leads him back to the criminal side and before he knows it he’s defending a 5-foot-3 school teacher in a murder case where she is accused of killing the banker trying to take her house away. The working title is The Fifth Witness and the pub date is April 5, 2011.
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