If You Were Leader of the Whole World, What Would Be the First Thing You Would Do?" - Andrew Crofts
It started just before Christmas 2018 with an email from a Dutch publisher and author called Geert Kimpen, informing me that his client was looking for a ghostwriter to help him write a “thriller-like book about the return of the Messiah” and asking if I would be interested. I was. On the 3 rd of January 2019 I met Martin Van Es at the Stafford Hotel in St James’s, tucked away in a mews behind the Ritz, and listened to an outpouring of ideas about how mankind needed to adapt if we were to avoid self-destruction. “If you were the leader of the whole world,” he asked at one point, “what would be the first thing that you would do?” Good question. “If Jesus was to reappear on Earth to give mankind one more chance to save themselves,” he continued, “what do you think would happen?” Another good question. I was hooked. Martin had read my novel “Secrets of the Italian Gardener”, and wanted his story written in a similar style. In March I travelled, ...