Featured Interview With T. Hunt Locke
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I’m a Boston boy. The Boston area is a fantastic place for a child. The history, the old buildings, the strong sense of place and culture, all help to create a strong foundation. Now I live in northern Thailand. Although it is quite a different place than Boston and New England, the culture is quite deep and is a wonderful place for a writer to live.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
From quite an early age books became my constant companions. Perhaps it was the Johnny Tremain book which sparked my lifelong passion. Writing came later and in the form of academic papers as I made my way through two graduate degrees. My first novel, The Ming Inheritance, was published in 2011.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Tricky question! I don’t have a favorite author in the way I have a favorite Rock and Roll band. Though, if I were to make a list, Umberto Eco would certainly top my list. I also don’t have a singular inspiration other than my love for history and a good story.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
My latest novel, Jim Thompson Is Alive!, is the second novel in the Sam Collins Mystery Series. A Sam Collins Mystery is an erotic historical thriller set in Thailand and Southeast Asia. The aim of my novels is to dig deep into the history and culture of Thailand/Asia while providing the reader with a sexy and thrilling read.
Jim Thompson Is Alive is such a book which finally unlocks a mystery that has baffled historians and observers for decades.
Jim Thompson, the Thai Silk King and famed World War II spy, had cut out a life of wealth, fame, and intrigue in post-war Thailand. He had built his Jim Thompson Thai Silk Company into an iconic fashion brand. Then, on a crisp clear Easter Sunday afternoon in Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands, this man of contradictions walked into the mists of history.
Jim Thompson Is Alive! is an erotic and majestic tour de force which dives headfirst into the web of deception which lies at the heart of the Jim Thompson story.
Meet the seductive women who try to ensnare Sam Collins into their own treacherous webs of sex, mystery, and intrigue. They are matched in wits, if not looks, by men who will stop at nothing to beat Sam to Thompson and to bury the Thai Silk King’s ghost once and for all.
Rigorously researched over a three year period, including several interviews with people who knew Thompson, T. Hunt Locke brings the elusive history of Jim Thompson into a riveting, sexy, and thrilling novel.
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