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Peter Sabin Willet was born on March 6th, 1957. He is a lawyer and a novelist. He is a partner at Morgan, Lewis and Bockius and formerly a partner at Bingham McCutchen. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of three novels, Present Value, The Deal and The Betrayal. He graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law School and lives outside Boston.
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Your first two novels were thrillers. Why the leap to social satire?
Writing this book was, for me, like riding my sister-in-law’s horse. I
have been trying to do that lately, and I discovered that the enterprise goes
very well when I decide to go wherever and whenever Joker wants to go, but leads
to some painful dismounts when I try to mess with Joker’s agenda.
I wrote the first thriller because I thought it would be easiest for a
nobody to publish a thriller. I wrote the second thriller because the
first book was a thriller. I even wrote a third thriller (the God’s
honest truth was that this was in 2000 or so and the plot was about the secret
son of a bin Ladinesque figure who is discovered at a US school…), or part of
a third thriller, but by this time it was really starting to feel like the horse
didn't want to go where I was urging it.
So I thought I might be able to stay in the saddle if I just let the horse go
where it wanted to go. Which was to Present Value. I suppose I have
an ironic sensibility, and I think a lot, as a middle aged guy, about where
things have come from and where they’re headed, and I believe I have a knack
for humor in writing (although my kids ...
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