August 17, 2025
Why Double Encryption Begins in 1977
Double Encryption begins in 1977 because the era was full of overlapping loyalties, brittle institutions, and plausible deniability. It gave the story the right texture from page one.
I wanted readers to feel a world where ordinary people could be pulled into extraordinary risk very quickly, sometimes without fully understanding the game around them.
That period setting also let me write tension without modern digital shortcuts.
Choices had to be made in slower, lonelier conditions.
Clive