It's a rollercoaster ride with a message that sometimes the greatest dangers are actually close to home. The action jets back and forth between California, the Cayman Islands and the darkest parts of South America as Fisk puts aside his own demons in his quest to find Olivia. His latest novel, Payoff, sees Fisk trying to find 15-year-old Olivia, the daughter of a Hollywood mogul. Years earlier, Corleone had read an article about a private investigator from Florida who specialised in retrieving children abducted by their estranged parent and taken overseas to avoid custody fights, and the idea stuck in his head. Fisk is a former US Marshal who specialises in tracking down abducted children, following the disappearance of his daughter a decade ago. One Man's Paradise won the 2009 Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award and Corleone has gone on to write six more books, two more in the Corvelli series and now two in the Simon Fisk series. So after five years I decided to strike out and write one of my own." "It was the original legal thrillers like John Grisham and Steve Martini that made me want to become a lawyer so I went to law school, spent those years practising, but in the end it didn't quite live up to the expectations of these books. Indeed, it was reading and writing that steered Corleone towards law in the first place.
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