Interview with Avanti Centrae, Author of Cleopatra’s Vendetta

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to jot down Cleopatra’s Vendetta – A Stryker Thriller?

This story was impressed by Cleopatra, the queen of historical Egypt. I’ve all the time been fascinated by her and wished to incorporate her in a novel in some unspecified time in the future. This thriller was an ideal match. One of probably the most highly effective ladies in historical past, she spoke 9 languages, was one of the primary to have her picture stamped on cash, loved dressing in disguise and assembly her topics incognito, and as soon as crammed a celebration room with knee-deep rose petals. She was each charming and clever and earned her place in historical past.

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to jot down?

Yes, I learn and write worldwide motion thrillers which can be infused with intrigue, historical past, science, and thriller. I’ll sometimes department out into well-written thriller novels, home thrillers, or fantasy however all the time return to sensible action-oriented tales that get my coronary heart charge up!

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

Don Winslow’s City of Lights, and The Survivor by Gregg Hurwitz. I simply completed The Omega Factor by Steve Berry and totally loved it.

What scene in your guide was your favourite to jot down?

That’s a toss-up. There’s the prologue, the place Cleopatra’s spy sneaks into her jail, bringing the newly found location of her mortal enemy and the younger asp hidden below the false backside of a basket of figs.

Then there’s a scene a couple of third of the way in which into the guide when Timothy Stryker, a particular ops chief whose spouse and daughter have been kidnapped, is chasing a lead at a dig web site in Egypt the place Cleopatra’s tomb could also be hidden (sure, in actual life). As Stryker descends right into a vertical shaft, one of the antagonists cuts the cable of the hoist. That scene is charged with motion and suspense!

Do you will have any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and many others.)

Mostly I take pleasure in writing from the sofa or outside utilizing my cellphone and I are likely to edit on the laptop computer sitting at my desk, which I fondly name my command heart. I discover my muse speaks after I’m climbing, too, so hold the cellphone helpful to jot down concepts.

Do you will have a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

At the entrance of this story is a quote by Adolf Hitler: “The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth.” I wouldn’t say I dwell by that quote however it’s apt. This story is about fact and braveness, about royal secrets and techniques and epic lies. The use of propaganda is older than Cleopatra and was used to defeat her. I do prefer to hold that in thoughts as I peruse the information and social media.

If you would select one factor for readers to recollect after studying your guide, what would it not be?

I depart readers with a last quote by Euripides, a Greek dramatist who wrote performs a couple of hundred years earlier than Cleopatra’s time. “Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”