SAM LLOYD In Person With Paul
SAM LLOYD chats to PAUL BURKE about his new thriller THE PEOPLE WATCHER, hinterlands, The Hobbit, surviving rejection, fulfilling a dream, character and boiling a frog.
THE PEOPLE WATCHER: Meet Mercy Lake. She likes to fix things: broken toys, old appliances. People.
She watches them in the dead of night, identifies what their lives are lacking and gives it to them . . . quietly. So quietly, they don't even know she exists.
Then Mercy meets Louis. He believes that some of those she watches deserve punishment, not help. But when people start getting hurt, Mercy must decide if the ends can ever…
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