How does this book make a contribution to the genre? The biggest opportunity was the chance to present a historical story unknown to many people.
The complexity of the plot and the weaving of the past and present strands were the biggest challenges. What was the biggest challenge this book presented? What about the biggest opportunity? I wondered if any of the German pilots ever returned after WW2, for what reason, and what would happen if he crossed paths with painter Edward Hopper, who was known to wander the countryside in search of subjects. I got the idea for the book from the German-American glider school that flourished briefly on Cape Cod and the historic glider flights made by a German team in the 1920s. Which took shape first: plot, character, or setting?
Paul Kemprecos recently spent some time with The Big Thrill discussing his latest thriller, KILLING ICARUS: Even with the help of a small-town police officer crushed by his own personal baggage and a German journalist who is not what he seems to be, Abi must tap intellectual and physical resources she never knew she had if she wants to survive. Only after she discovers a World War 2 secret locked in an Edward Hopper sketch does she realize the troubles that plagued her in Boston were child’s play compared to the cat-and-mouse game she must play with hired killers aboard the Nantucket ferry and the threats that emanate from an old barn near a fortress-like mansion. Instead of finding sanity, she wonders if she is going insane, especially when she sees shadows moving across the night sky. But her tranquility is soon shattered by plans to reenact a historic aviation event in her front yard. When an old mentor offers her a job and use of a cottage overlooking Cape Cod Bay, she jumps at the chance to pull her life back together amid the calming influence of spectacular sunsets, walks on the beach, and the practice of Zen archery. Art historian Abi Vickers has lost her marriage, her galleries, and her apartment.
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