Diving deeply into the wave of courtroom mysteries flooding bookstore shelves in the nineties, he was inspired to become a lawyer. "And as it turned out he said they'd been reading my books and I was on their list of authors who might work.Douglas Corleone followed an unusual route to becoming an author of legal thrillers. "I thought this would be perfect, writing a Ludlum book if Hoffmann was involved, so I knew it would be a long shot but I called my agent and asked her to contact him to see if there was any way we could work it. One day I was at the supermarket with my young son and I picked up a copy of one of the Covert-One books by Jamie Freveletti and in the acknowledgements she thanked Mitch Hoffmann. "I've always been a great Ludlum fan and I've always wanted to work with the editor Mitch Hoffmann.
The third Simon Fisk book will be out later this year and Corleone is also excited by the release of his first book in the Robert Ludlum's Paul Janson series, due soon. It's a rollercoaster ride with a message that sometimes the greatest dangers are actually close to home. The action jets back and forth between California, the Cayman Islands and the darkest parts of South America as Fisk puts aside his own demons in his quest to find Olivia. His latest novel, Payoff, sees Fisk trying to find 15-year-old Olivia, the daughter of a Hollywood mogul. Years earlier, Corleone had read an article about a private investigator from Florida who specialised in retrieving children abducted by their estranged parent and taken overseas to avoid custody fights, and the idea stuck in his head. Fisk is a former US Marshal who specialises in tracking down abducted children, following the disappearance of his daughter a decade ago. One Man's Paradise won the 2009 Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award and Corleone has gone on to write six more books, two more in the Corvelli series and now two in the Simon Fisk series. So after five years I decided to strike out and write one of my own." "It was the original legal thrillers like John Grisham and Steve Martini that made me want to become a lawyer so I went to law school, spent those years practising, but in the end it didn't quite live up to the expectations of these books.
Indeed, it was reading and writing that steered Corleone towards law in the first place.
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