Monday, October 26, 2026

Q&A with Humphrey Hawksley

From my Q&A with Humphrey Hawksley, author of Operation Icebreaker (A Rake Ozenna Thriller, 5):
How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?

Operation Icebreaker takes readers straight in. No tangents. No nuance. The story does what it says on the cover. Operation imagines secrecy, danger mission. Icebreaker projects extreme cold, exactly the environment familiar for protagonist Rake Ozenna to go into action in Arctic Greenland.

What's in a name?

Rake Ozenna comes from a tiny Alaskan settlement on Little Diomede Island that sits on America’s border with Russia. I shortened...[read on]
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--Marshal Zeringue