Harlan Coben

I was like 19 or 20.

And I was much too young to handle this much responsibility and I was not very good at it.

And there's 50 like adult Americans, like my parents age would come in and I was supposed to take care of them.

And the experience is very strange.

And I said to myself,

I should write a book about this.

And one of the reasons you do it, and this is one of the problems with modern technology, there's, you know, what was I going to do when I'm in, I don't even, I didn't even speak Spanish.

I couldn't watch the TV.

I didn't really have any friends out there.

There's no electronics.

There's nothing to play with.

I read a ton of books.

There was a used bookshop.

I think I went through every book that they had there.

But I was like kind of bored and I bought a notebook one day and I wrote.

And I wrote, I started writing a novel.

Never written a short story in my life.

I started writing a novel about this really cool tour guide, American young tour guide who was taking care of these annoying clients.

Called the book Aim to Please.

I came back to the States and actually wanted to finish it.