rashbre central: The Triangle : a slight return

Wednesday 15 January 2020

The Triangle : a slight return


I decided to re-cut my earlier novel "The Triangle" in the same style as Coin and change the author to Ed Adams. It was an interesting process.

Aside from the typo corrections, there were masses of detailing points to remedy. The original version was written in around 2008/9. It is a great example of wide time, because of the various contemporaneous changes needed.

  • Sean Brophy, now as modern story telling suggests, replaced with Amelia Brophy as the main villain (elle)
  • The ironic and terminally-hip Umbaba night club closed down so the story moved to Fabric
  • Waterloo is no longer the terminal for Eurostar. This and a few other bits of London needed adaptation.
  • CDs, DVDs, white iMacs and a slew of other technical things are all bit naughties and have been removed or adapted
  • Nokia phones. Oops
  • The Hummer. I left it in because it is fun-worthy, but as a rental, it should go.
  • Amelia needs to think of a new last name, so I changed it to Jennings (Hat-tip to Killing Eve author)
  • Brian becomes Lucien Deschamps (quelle surprise, Rodney)
  • Pete was so obviously a holding name, so he's now modernised to Mark
  • I changed Bigsy's car to an Audi, but Scrivener fought back, and it's still a Rover.
  • I checked the top floor suite at the Martinez where the Russians stayed, and it really was that good.



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