I’ve just revised a scene in my thriller, The Enemy Apostle, fifth and final in The Jesus Thief series.  It takes place in Paris at a real location, the incomparable restaurant, Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée.  Alain Ducasse was the first chef in the world to hold three Michelin stars (the highest given) for each of three different restaurants he owned.  For much of my life, I longed to dine at his flagship, but the electrical engineer in me argued it was illogical to spend so much on a single meal.  Luckily, I wrested her slide rule from her for the sake of this novel and reserved lunch there for my grandson and me in 2011. At long last, I entered between the famous spoon and fork. Check out the video here to see the restaurant.  We sat by the window overlooking the garden and for more than two hours existed in the culinary heaven of Ducasse’s tasting menu. My young character, Peter, eats there too, but who is his dinner partner?  Does she have an ulterior motive?  Does he? Most of all, how will his actions affect the devoted mother he left behind, who is now desperately afraid for him?

Almost as much fun as having a splendid meal in this amazing place, is remembering and writing about it.  Insertion of book four, The Covert Messiah, in the series’ time sequence interrupted progress on The Enemy Apostle, which then became book five.  It’s great to be working on it again.