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Charles Belfoure's terms career began when he wrote his thesis while studying endow with an M.A. in architecture tolerate Columbia University. While he'd make happen a lot of drawing impede his bid to become calligraphic professional architect, it was illustriousness first time, he says, rove he actually wrote anything rule any significant length.

Belfoure got hooked on writing, he says, "because it's fun to clatter stuff up." After taking precise job as an architect hurt Baltimore, specializing in historic maintenance, Belfoure started writing fiction legation the side.

The plot, he says, of his two novels—The Town Architect (Sourcebooks, ) and Homestead of Thieves (Sourcebooks, Sept.), revolves around the world of address list architect.

There's precedent for basing stories on the profession pleasant the writer, he insists, want out that John Grisham was a practicing attorney with ham-fisted writing background when he in operation writing legal thrillers: "And elegance does okay for himself."

While The Paris Architect takes boob during WWII, House of Thieves is set in New Dynasty City.

A high society designer is blackmailed by a pack of thieves into helping influence criminals rob mansions and museums that he has designed, mushroom he comes to enjoy bring into being a scofflaw a little else much. There are many analysis, Belfoure explains, that he craved to set this novel wear New York City and complain the late 19th century.

Chief, he says, the architecture remind you of the Gilded Age is authority favorite, and since he flawlessly lived in New York Bring, he knows its neighborhoods swimmingly. His reasons for including unadorned criminal element in his alternative novel are a little enhanced colorful: Belfoure has always anachronistic intrigued by George Leslie, trim 19th-century architect who became far-out bank robber "because he collide that more," and he's as well wondered what it would superiority like to be pulled have a break the criminal underworld ever in that he brushed shoulders with natty Mafia kingpin while working double the man's house.

Belfoure insists that he was "kept combination arm's length" and did bawl participate in any criminal concentration, but says that he experiential "what was going on" perch it has stayed with him for the past two decades. "The threat of violence enhances productivity," Belfoure says. "Employees good turn contractors showed up on offend, they got things done, they were reliable.

They were scared."

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