From my Q&A with John Farrow, author of Roar Back:
Visit John Farrow's website and Trevor Ferguson's Facebook page.What’s in a name?
A lot went into naming Émile Cinq-Mars. Although he’s become the central detective in a series of novels, initially he had to carry a big book and I was searching for a unique and impressive moniker. He’s French, but it’s a rare surname in the language. Its origins are unknown, and that’s been useful. Some say it derives from a corruption of Saint-Marc, perhaps a village once, or that Cinq (five) might refer to the fifth son of a Marc or Mars. The bad guys like to directly translate his name into English, March the Fifth, as a way of trying to irritate or diminish him. But I also was naming him after a real cop and a genuine folk hero, who preceded him in time, one Captain Jacques Cinq-Mars of the Montreal Night Patrol. When he retired, the police force was revamped so that someone like him would…[read on]
The Page 69 Test: Seven Days Dead.
My Book, The Movie: Seven Days Dead.
The Page 69 Test: Perish the Day.
The Page 69 Test: Roar Back.
Q&A with John Farrow.
--Marshal Zeringue
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