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Journal Entry 1 by Pat-the-Rat from Bunbury, Western Australia Australia on Monday, April 30, 2007
 In David Morrell's words :
My riskiest book. My admiration for Hitchcock's Vertigo led me to structure this novel about a war photographer so that, like a photographic double exposure, it had two plots, one on top of the other. The hero, Mitch Coltrane, takes incriminating pictures of a Bosnia war criminal committing an atrocity. Pursued by the war criminal, Mitch hides in a house that was once owned by a great photographer he admires. He discovers photographs from the early thirties, all of which depict the same hypnotically beautiful woman. Mitch becomes so obsessed with those images that he sets out to learn everything possible about the woman and uses that information to help him try to forget his nightmarish memories of the wars he has photographed. The war-criminal plot overlaps with woman-in-the-photographs plot, just as the past and the present overlap. Some readers need a more straight-forward story and felt, at the time, that this kind of experimentation didn't belong in a thriller. I disagree. It's important to try new things, and lately, I've been getting a lot of favorable comments about this book, suggesting that it's coming into its own.
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