A breakthrough on the fourth Venus novel
The last time I saw Paris... Rue Rampon in 2019 Back in April, I mentioned that I wasn't working on the fourth book in the Venus series, but that's all changed in July. Maybe it was the fact that I just marked the 30th anniversary of the trip to London and Paris that inspired the original trilogy, but I finally had a breakthrough in the main plot, which revolves around the character of Juliette Lacombe trying to stop a terrorist attack at the Louvre. Originally, the book was going to be set in 2015 – 10 years following the events of Leaving Paris – but now that timeframe is just the prologue. The main story is now set in 2025, Juliette has been retired as an operative/assassin for nearly 20 years, but is pressed back into service when global leaders at a summit in Paris attend a special exhibition at the Louvre, which is besieged by radical terrorists. What's interesting to me – at this point – is exploring these characters who have now "aged out" of the typic...