Interview with author John Paul Davis
It has been a pleasure to interview renowned thriller writer and historian John Paul Davis via email. The questions relate to John Paul Davis' interest in the 17th century,which is only one aspect of this writer's work.In fact the first John Paul Davis book I read was his biography of Henry III 'The Gothic King' which is rather good.The author's websites are linked to the foot of the page. Michael Bully, 5th September 2020 . Interview 1) The 1666 Fire of London features heavily in your thriller 'The Crown Jewels Conspiracy', when a contemporary gang of renegades attempt to reconstruct the fire in our century via launching a terrorist attack. Intrigued to read in your Afterword to the novel about the claims that the 1666 Fire was an act of deliberate arson. How seriously were they taken at the time? How seriously should the deliberate arson theory be taken now? At the time, it was taken very seriously. Shortly after the fire, one Ro...