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Kill your babies, that’s what they say. And it’s true, you have to be brutal when you’re editing a book. But this was one scene I agonised over. I had so much fun writing it, I didn’t want to let it go. And yet it still ended up on the cutting room floor.
It’s between Curtis Loewe, the film producer and political donor and all round national treasure, and Jonathan Clancy, the man who is trying to expose his crimes. I hope you get a sense of Clancy’s character in his brief appearance here. He turned out to be one of my favourites.
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