No Mercy at All

How’s this for an ideal subject-interviewer pairing? In the latest edition of Crimespree Magazine, Ray Banks (Saturday’s Child) interrogates fellow novelist Martyn Waites (The Mercy Seat) on subjects ranging from Waites’ screenwriting and his work with young offenders, to the alien-ness of Newcastle and the “finite” future of his Joe Donovan series (he’s looking at seven to 10 installments). Read a length excerpt from the interview here.