SAM LLOYD In Person With Paul

SAM LLOYD chats to PAUL BURKE about his new thriller THE PEOPLE WATCHER, hinterlands, The Hobbit, surviving rejection, fulfilling a dream, character and boiling a frog.THE PEOPLE WATCHER: Meet Mercy Lake. She likes to fix things: broken toys, old appliances. People.She watches them in the dead of night, identifies what their lives are lacking and gives it to them . . . quietly. So quietly, they don't even know she exists.Then Mercy meets Louis. He believes that some of those she watches deser...