“…Lane is an emotionally, psychologically and physically scarred man. He has lost nearly everything in his life that has ever mattered to him – his family, his job, his faith – and we show that even what did matter to him was always approached in a questionable fashion. He has a strong desire to “do the right thing,” but is often very uncertain about how to go about first identifying what the right thing is, and then how to go about doing it. Half the time he just wings it, the other half he is scarily resolute in his decision-making. It’s fun to write someone decisions run the gamut of extremes from absolute certainty to “what the hell.”

“He is also a man of very few words. In the miniseries, as I was feeling my way around the character, I probably had him say about 80 percent more than what he will be saying in the new book. Never have I written the words “no copy” so often in my full scripts – a fact I’m sure all my readers will be very happy about.”

Azrael