What attracted me to this book was the unusual storyline, how could Chris Elgood possibly pull off a story chronicling how a young girl growing up in a remote part of Africa possibly morph into a much in demand assassin in the UK?

A cardinal rule in writing is to select subjects that you have some knowledge about. Oh don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that you have to be an assassin to write about the subject, rather that you need some experience with the places and their social makeup to create a convincing backdrop.

It transpires that Chris Elgood has ‘the write stuff’. I did a little online digging and found this interesting snippet…