![]() In the 1960s, CIA scientists in Langley, Virginia implanted electrodes in dogs brains. I’m fascinated by the MK Ultra experiments that were performed by the CIA during the 1960s and ’70s, and some time ago I came across a particularly bizarre one. Rob’s parents were scientists who carried out dubious experiments at Sundial during her childhood - and she realizes that this past might have implications for Callie’s future. They mistrust one another, and each has a suspicion that the other means her harm. Rob and Callie’s relationship is badly fractured. A traumatic event forces Rob to take her twelve year old daughter Callie on a bonding trip to her old childhood home: a research facility in the California desert, Sundial. ![]() To start, what is Sundial about, and when and where does it take place? In the following email interview, Ward discusses what inspired and influenced this somewhat fuzzy tale. Having recently set her novel The Last House On Needless Streetin the lush greenery that is the Pacific Northwest, writer Catriona Ward is going somewhere very different for her new thriller Sundial ( hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). ![]()
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