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NOVELIST INSPIRED BY HOLIDAY FROM HELL
SECOND NOVEL TERROR COVERS LOCATIONS FROM SCOTLAND TO SPAIN
A “CHEAP mosquito-infested” hotel in the Costa Del Sol provided the inspiration for north-east novelist Lance Black’s second novel Terror – a gritty crime thriller.
It takes its reader from familiar locations in the north and north-east to as far afield as Puerto Banus in the Costa del Sol.
Black, 42, from the Mannofield district of Aberdeen, said: “It’s about a terror attack on Scotland and various mysterious crimes in Aberdeen.
“I made my first trip to Puerto Banus last year.
“Being a man of modest means I checked into the cheapest, and indeed the only, hotel in the town centre – a club 18-40-type place called the Pyr Hotel.
“It proved impossible to actually write anything because the place proved to be a hen and stag party haven – doorslamming drunks making merry hell until six in the morning.”
He added: “Despite the clientele and the mosquito infestation I did manage to research the place and gather inspiration for Terror.”
Black, who released Direct Action in 2007 to local praise, claims some of the events in his books have since come true in the real world.
He said: “In Terror, a petty criminal is having a drink in a fictional Garthdee bar before tripping off to rob houses over the old railway line. I
based the fictional bar on The Copper Beech on Auchinyell Road.
“Recently it was burned to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
“I am being constantly surprised that fictional events in my books later become facts.”
Terror is out now and its 2,500-print run is expected to sell out.
For more information visit www.lanceblack.co.uk.
DIRECT ACTION
ISBN 978-0-09555-45009
TERROR
ISBN 978-0-09555-45016
If you can’t find the books please email Lance at: lance.black@yahoo.com
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