The End of the Line for Jack Getze
Submitted by Sandra_Ruttan on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 20:05
It may, or may not be a wrongful conviction, but you’ve been found guilty and sentenced to death. Tell us how you’ll spend your last hours.
Jack: Typing faster. I have so many stories I want to tell, I know I'll be writing until the very end.
Victim: Jack Getze, author of BIG NUMBERS and BIG MONEY
What’s on the menu for your last supper?
Beef tacos from Roberto's in Oceanside, California. I think I could eat them for dinner every night. Shredded, spicy beef wedged between a crisp corn tortilla, cheese, lettuce, and hot sauce. Gosh, my mouth waters just thinking about them.
Priest, prostitute, lawyer, lover? Who’s your last visitor.
I'd want to see my agent, Grace Morgan--make sure she has the final revisions to my swan song novel.
What’s the last book you’d choose to read?
The Great Gatsby
Given the choice, what’s your preferred method of execution?
Firing squad. Maybe they'd miss.
Ideally, what will it say on your headstone or in your obituary?
Plot is what your character wants, theme is what he needs.
Bio: A former reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Los Angeles Times, Jack Getze covered financial and economic issues for more than 15 years. Switching professions, Getze later sold stocks and bonds for a regional securities firm on the New Jersey Shore. He retired in 1999 to write novels.