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Lostpedia has put together all of the known information about Gary Troup and his new book “Bad Twin“.

Book Talk: Interview Part 1

This video clip was discovered on Barnes and Noble.

Laird Granger: Hello, I’m Laird Granger and welcome to Book Talk. Today we’re talking to Gary Troup, novelist and non-fiction author whose works include The Valenzetti Equation and his newest mystery novel Bad Twin. Welcome Gary, nice to have you here.
Gary Troup: Thanks, glad to be here Laird.
Laird Granger: Bad Twin - what inspired the novel?
Gary Troup: I was game fishing off the Florida Keys and I got to talking to the boat captain. He started telling me about this other business that he had which was ferrying people and things in and out of Cuba. Illegally of course.
Laird Granger: Interesting.
Gary Troup: Oh yeah, I thought he’d make a great character and that was the spark that got the book going.
Laird Granger: But the book’s not really about him…
Gary Troup: No, no, the boat captain is j…
*CLIP ENDS*

Book Talk: Interview Part 2

This clip was found in a link in Borders Reward email.

Gary Troup: The boat captain is just a point of departure. Here’s this guy. One day he’s taking families fishing and the next day he’s making smuggling runs, and it was that duality that intrigued me - how we all have good and bad inside of us.
Laird Granger: And is that what the title ‘Bad Twin’ refers to?
Gary Troup: Er, yeah. The book is a story about a private investigator named Paul Artisan who’s hired by this rich man to track down his missing twin, the supposed “bad twin” from the title.
Laird Granger: But without giving anything away here, who is bad and who is good - that’s all part of the mystery isn’t it?
Gary Troup: (nods) Yes, yes, very much so.
Laird Granger: Your book men…
*CLIP ENDS*

Book Talk: Interview Part 3

This clip can be found on Amazon’s Bad Twin page.

Laird Granger: Your book mentions a lot of real life people, places and institutions.
Gary Troup: Yeah, I try to incorporate real-life stuff into my fiction, um, just gives it a lot more… veracity.
Laird Granger: Like Alvar Hanso, and the Hanso Foundation?
Gary Troup: (looks uncomfortable)… right…
Laird Granger: Did including them have anything to do with your non-fiction writing?
Gary Troup: Absolutely. I wrote a non-fiction book called The Valenzetti Equation
Laird Granger: (interrupting) about the reclusive Princeton University mathematician Enzo Valenzetti and his famous theorem…
Gary Troup: Yes
Laird Granger: At least that’s what they say it’s about. (shaking head) I have to confess I can’t find a copy.
Gary Troup: (nods) Yeah, I know. I mean, first of all it was a small printing, and allegedly, now…
*CLIP ENDS*

Note From The Editors: Part 1

A sample of the book can be heard on SoundsGood.com.

“(whispering) Bad Twin. A note from the editors. It is with a mix of pride and sorrow that Hyperion presents ‘Bad Twin’, the last novel by a wonderful author taken from us in the very prime of his writing life. As many readers are already aware, Gary Troup has been missing since September 2004 when the jetliner that was carrying him from Sydney to Los Angeles crashed somewhere over the South Pacific. While nothing is more human to hope for miracles, reason tells us that the author and his fellow travellers cannot have survived this disaster. As his books so vividly attest, Gary Troup was a master of quiet irony. Perhaps he would have savoured the cruel, but undeniable irony of his own demise on route from Sydney. In recent years, Australia had become an increasingly important part of his life. He loved the Land Down Under and the Land Down Under seemed to love him back. A new readership was discovering him in the antipodes. He seemed re-energised by the acceptance he found there, as evidenced by the letters that followed–correspondence that Troup shared with us when submitting his manuscript, just days before departing on his fateful journey. But it wasn’t business alone that accounted for the author’s increasingly frequent Transpacific travels. Somewhere in the skies above the ocean, he seemed to have found a great romance and this, to those of us who knew him well, came as a delightful surprise. Gary Troup was a confirmed bachelor. Long on charm, but short on commitment, he’d kept his affections …”

Note From The Editors: Part 2

This clip is available as a preview on iTunes.

“… re-energised by the acceptance he found there, as evidenced by the letters that followed–correspondence that Troup shared with us when submitting his manuscript, just days before departing on his fateful journey. But it wasn’t business alone that accounted for the author’s increasingly frequent Transpacific travels. Somewhere in the skies above the ocean, he seemed to have found a great romance and this, to those of us who knew him well, came as a delightful surprise. Gary Troup was a confirmed bachelor. Long on charm, but short on commitment, he’d kept his affections in check—until he met Cindy Chandler, a flight attendant on Oceanic Airlines. All indications are that he was completely smitten with her. It is to Cindy that he dedicated this book; with characteristic slyness, he even gave her a cameo role to play. If death can ever be kind, perhaps it was a kindness that the new lovers were lost in the same catastrophe, neither having to mourn the other.

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Walkabout Publishing
Christine DeVries, Senior Editor
August 16, 2004
Mr. Gary Troup
481 West 68th Street
NY NY 10023
USA
Dear Mr. Troup,
I wanted to drop you a line to tell you how …”

Note From The Editors: Part 3

This message can be heard on Gary Troup’s website.

Walkabout Publishing
Christine DeVries, Senior Editor
August 16, 2004
Mr. Gary Troup
481 West 68th Street
NY NY 10023
USA
Dear Mr. Troup,
I wanted to drop you a line to tell you how delighted I am with the draft of BAD TWIN. I think it’s the cleverest, and the same time spookiest, thing you’ve done. Good move setting some scenes in Sydney and at the reef not to mention including such an appealing, if not neccessarily trustworthy Aussie woman as a love interest. Your growing audience in our hemisphere will no doubt appreciate the local references. I am happy to tell you that we are planning a major promotional push for your book, and I am wondering if we could lure you to Sydney sometime soon, to meet with our marketing people and to work out some details of your publicity tour. We would insist, of course, on arranging your accommodations and covering your expenses, as well as trying our very best to show you a damn good time while you are with us! Please let me know if you are willing to make the journey.
Warm regards,
Christine
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Gary Troup
Ms. Christine DeVries
Walkabout Publishing
4200 Queen Street
Sydney, New South Wales
2316, Australia
August 23, 2004
Dear Christine–
Thanks so much for your kind note. Like every other sort of salesman, I rub my hands with glee at the thought of expanding my territory—and Australia is a big territory. Regarding my willingness to come to Sydney, you should know that I never miss a chance to visit your beautiful city—and if the trip is on the publisher’s dime, so much the better. I trust that entertaining me will not be too difficult for you and your colleagues; just have a few bottles of your excellent shiraz on hand
at all times.

Which reminds me, please don’t call me Mr. Troup anymore, I write private eye books, not literary novels and i’m not to be taken too seriously. Let me know when it would be convinient to have me visit, early september would work for me.
Cheers,
Gary