![]() ![]() Shur tells a number of tales about the very first witnesses to join his program. At the same time, I’d stumbled across a nonfiction book called WITSEC: INSIDE THE FEDERAL WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM by Gerald Shur, the man who founded the program. ![]() I loved it and started brainstorming some ideas that would fit the genre. It started when I read a mystery/thriller by Steven Barnes titled CASANEGRA. He recently answered some questions for THE BIG THRILL: ![]() Giles, who holds down a full-time job, lives in Chesapeake, Virginia, with his wife. The book so impressed its publisher that it bought a second YA thriller, ENDANGERED, on the basis of a summary and a couple of chapters. Published in January 2014 by Harper Collins, FAKE ID focuses on a teenager, Nick Pearson, who gets caught up in the death of a friend and in the federal government’s witness protection program. KIRKUS REVIEWS said of FAKE ID, Lamar Giles’s debut Young Adult thriller: “Fast action, judicious plot twists and sufficiently evil teens and adults should keep thrill-seeking readers awake long into the night.” ![]()
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