Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis
HMM: You’re basically constellating these true stories and you’re making them more true, with more layers.
SC: And that’s what was so fun about this project versus Power Hungry. In this case I had a lot more information and I was able to make it a lot more narrative. This is the kind of book that I like reading personally and I think it is a little more narrative than my last book, more dramatic.
HMM: It’s really dramatic.
SC: It’s ruining me for my next book. I keep thinking, “No one’s shooting Nazis!” My writing group says, “You’re not always going to get to write a book about shooting Nazis.”