Indie Reader recently interviewed author Michael J. McLaughlin, author of Extinction. The author’s medical thriller was the winner of the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category of the 2022 IndieReader Discovery Awards.
From the interview:
IndieReader: What inspired you to write the book? A particular person? An event?
McLaughlin: I read an article about the Jarkov Mammoth discovered on the Taimyr Peninsula of Siberia. An international group of researchers gathered at an Arctic research station to systematically excavate and study the frozen remains, with the possible outcome of cloning the DNA to bring woolly mammoths back from extinction. I was fascinated by the research but started to wonder, “Hmmm, what if something went really wrong all the way up there in the Arctic?”
You can read the entire interview here.