Stephen Ramay

But I also would suggest that reimagining a 400-year-old novel is not keeping necessarily only up with the times.

I also think we're three people in the universe of six billion.

Yeah.

Well, I'll name a crime fiction novel in that case, which is Adrian McKinty's The Chain.

Now, Adrian McKinty is a successful crime novelist in a literary sense.

His Sean Duffy novels have been widely praised, but...

Not widely bought.

Not widely bought.

Unfortunately.

And he was still driving an Uber before The Chain, which is a standalone novel, not at all connected with the Sean Duffy series, which is set in Northern Ireland, which is McKinty's homeland.

This is set in the US, where he's been living for a while, and it's a single novel about something that anyone who reads it will need to keep reading and

In short, the chain is your child being kidnapped by someone and you then have to go and kidnap another child.

And then the person whose child you kidnap have to go and kidnap another child.

That's the chain.

And, you know, behind it all, of course, there's a financial element.

These are normal people being forced to commit this terrible crime because if they don't, their children will be killed.

That's the set-up.

And once you read the first few pages and you realise that's what's happening, how can you not keep reading?

Yeah, it is stressful and it's doing extremely well.

It's his big hit.