I'm often asked from where my inspirations for thriller books come. You might think because I like to write political-techno-thrillers, that it would come from the news, social media (political), my associations with technologically innovative groups (techno), or TV (thrillers). Nope. I'm also a sky-watcher. Call me an occultist, astrologist, alchemist, even an illusionist or 



magus if you like, but every clear night I retire after writing to my makeshift living room observatory, where I parse the sky for, you guessed it, new inspiration. That's where the idea of quantum entanglement in QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) originated. Looking out into the darkness, looking for...anything meaningful...one comes face-to-face with the unimaginably vast universe au natural, the technology that's necessary to penetrate the darkness, and all the foibles of humankind surrounding that look into the depths. That's also where the idea of the piecemeal disintegration of an otherwise strongly cohesive entity like the USA a la former USSR came from. And even BitCoins were inspired by way of considering the illusive commerce of the galaxies. And the human foibles? They're always there for those who want to see them. Taken together, the fabric of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) is nothing more or less than the panoply of the nighttime universe I so like to view.