He likes the ladies, huh?
INTERVIEW May 9, 2003 In this special interview with Bookreporter.com’s Suspense/Thriller Author Spotlight team (Carol Fitzgerald, Joe Hartlaub, and Wiley Saichek), William Lashner, author of FATAL FLAW, discusses his legal background, his characters’ personalities, and his future writing plans. BRC: Victor Carl’s personality has been subtly changing. He was a bit of a smart aleck, if an endearing one, in HOSTILE WITNESS. He seemed to undergo a bit of a transformation by the middle of BITTER TRUTH, becoming a bit more serious by the end of that book. In FATAL FLAW his persona is almost dark, almost brooding. Are you deliberately changing Carl’s image, or are you merely dramatically demonstrating different sides of his persona over the course of the three novels? William Lashner: Victor has absolutely changed through the course of the books, you can’t go through what Victor went through in HOSTILE WITNESS without changing. They say adversity doesn’t test character so much as reveal it,
