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PageOneLit.com Interviews Peter James
Quirk
Peter James Quirk is an adventurer at
heart who has traveled the world. He was
born and educated in England in the
aftermath of
World War II. At various times he has taught
English in France, taught skiing in both
France and Austria, and spent several years
at sea as a fisherman and with the British
Merchant Marine. When he settled in the U.S.
he became a building contractor, a
profession that gave him the opportunity to
spend his winters skiing and snowboarding.
He owns a ski chalet in the Catskill
Mountains and has taught skiing at Windham
Mountain for more than twenty years.
Peter took to writing after selling his
business several years ago-his most
interesting assignment to date was writing
for a French Chef on a Chinese cable
television channel. He won a literary award
for short story writing in January 2005.
Trail of Vengeance is his first novel. Peter
James Quirk is a member of the prestigious
organization "Mystery Writers of America".
" You will turn the pages as
fast as your eyes and fingers permit
as you traverse through its exciting
story." Bookviews by Alan Caruba
"I'm happy to report that Peter
James Quirk has managed to make the
"silver" list with his
mystery/thriller, "Trail of
Vengeance" Sherrie Schmauder From
Recorder Community Newspaper
Pageonelit.com: "TRAIL OF VENGEANCE" is
action packed and takes the reader on a
tremendous journey from New York to Europe.
Discuss what you enjoy about writing action
scenes and where did you inherit this writing
skill?" Talk a little about your settings and
research.
Peter James Quirk: First I’d like to say that I
am a realist by nature who would have difficulty
writing something that could not possibly
happen. That is to say, I couldn’t dream about
winning the lottery if I didn’t have a current
lottery ticket in my pocket. In other words, my
characters need a reason for everything they do,
even if it’s just the fact they are inherently
evil, like the minor characters Fritz and Hans
in the rape scene, for example.
In the case of Emile, however, I portrayed him
as a blue-collar guy with minimal education who
was familiar with the seamy side of life, and,
from his experiences as a ski instructor, also
the more sophisticated and upscale side. I then
allowed his dreams of becoming rich to pull him
into a life of crime.
Most of the minor characters were, as I said
previously, invented to serve the story. Then
their personalities expanded during the
rewriting process depending on how important
they became. The fun foving side of Rita
Carmelli, for instance, came from a woman I once
knew who actually told me the story of the man
who pulled out a portable TV and watched a
Yankee game during a dinner date, and how she
dealt with that particular humiliation.
Read complete interview at
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Buy "TRAIL OF VENGEANCE"
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Book Description
Lisa Rossi, a young Brooklyn police detective,
is pitted against international jewel thieves,
who, during the course of a spectacular heist in
Manhattan, murder Lisa's partner. The trail
begins in a New York strip club and spans across
Europe, introducing Lisa to a French ski
instructor and a more sophisticated lifestyle,
while she eliminates the gang one by one. Trail
of Vengeance is a classic tale of good and evil,
racing downhill to the last page.
From the Publisher
Peter James Quirk is one the exciting new
authors in our expanding fiction line. He's an
entrepreneur and adventurer, just the right man
to tell a story.
Highly
recommended
reading for all
mystery buffs,
May 7, 2006
Trail Of
Vengeance by
Peter James
Quirk is the
enticing tale of
Lisa Rossi, a
young detective
for the Brooklyn
Police
Department, who
is faced with a
case of jewelry
thievery and
murder, be the
murder that of
her own partner.
Readers will
follow Lisa
through her
investigation as
it leads her
through Europe
and the
introduction to
a more appealing
life as she
works to solve
the seemingly
bottomless case.
Trail Of
Vengeance is
very highly
recommended
reading for all
mystery buffs.
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