I created character identities and short story plots (and drawings) which I kept in notebooks, so I wouldn’t lose the beats. The next night and every night for a year-and-a-half after that I had to tell a Billy Thompson story. I re-created Billy Thompson and made up every bit of the tale as I was telling it to him.
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He insisted on a bedtime story every night. Yes, I groan too but I got 10 out of 10, ‘Excellent’, for that story! The first thing I wrote semi-seriously was years later when my son was four years old. It was an essay I wrote at grammar school, titled ‘Billy Thompson versus The Nazis’.
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HG: Great minds think alike! So, what was the first thing you ever wrote? LI: Are we joined at the literary hip or what? We sure have good taste. All of the above influenced me as a fan of the thriller genre, and fueled my will to create my own thrillers. His protagonist was Mike Hammer and that guy is the paradigm of the tough guy. It’s by Mickey Spillane and is called ‘I the Jury’. One of the first books to influence me was one I found years ago while on holiday abroad. LI: Looks like you sussed me, but there are lots more I admire: John Grisham, Jeffrey Deaver, David Baldacci, John Gardner, Harlan Coben, and on… I have all 14 of Fleming’s James Bond books, and I have read all the John Gardner Bond books (also 14). Good, solid, hard-hitting writers with a masculine edge. HG: Which books and authors influenced you as you became a writer? I’m seeing shades of Ian Fleming, Dick Francis, Lee Child. I have always had an active imagination and loved telling stories. I am striving to provide a piece of work that readers will enjoy reading as much as I’m enjoying writing it. Right now, I’m 7,500 words into my next Tom Ramsay novel. I write what I hope my readers will enjoy.
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Obviously, as a fiction writer, I make stuff up: in that particular novel I have used facts intertwined with LOTS of poetic licence. My novel, Beyond Vengeance, is based in my home town of Manchester and includes facts about an actual family gang who reigned in the 1950s here. I like to write about what I see and experience wherever possible. As such, that’s the genre I also like to write in. LI: I’m a fan of thrillers, action thrillers, crime thrillers, and suspense thrillers – thrillers that feature and depict humans on Planet Earth, past or present. HG: So, Larry – for readers who haven’t checked out your books yet, how would YOU describe yourself?
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Formerly on Her Majesty’s Service, and a third Dan grade in Shotokan Karate, Larry brings real world experience to his thrilling books and subscribers to Hidden Gems were thrilled when they got a chance to read his work for FREE as part of our community. Today, we’re chatting with Larry Igbon, the British author of taut thrillers Bringing Hell, Project G and Beyond Vengeance.