Author’s Note
I love to meld the real and the possible in my writing, ideally so you don’t even know which is which. Research is also one of the most fun parts of being an author. Here are some of the aspects woven into the book that you might be interested to know more about.
Obedience to authority research
“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find far more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have been committed in the name of rebellion.”
CP Snow, “Either-Or” (1961)
This topic has fascinated me since I first read of Stanley Milgram’s experiments based on demonstrating that the Nazi atrocities would have been perpetrated by any of us given the same situation. The Stanford prison experiment took this further and I urge you to read
