Cal Weaver and the hitchhiker from hell
Canadian author Linwood Barclay says of when he first set out to write: “I said my goal was to be able to use the words ‘Canada’ and ‘thriller’ in the same sentence.”
The best-selling author of No Time for Goodbye (2007), Never Look Away (2010) and Trust Your Eyes (2011) is entitled to do so now. Born in the US, but raised in Canada after his parents moved when he was four years old, Barclay holds dual citizenship. Despite being steeped in Canadian culture all his life, however, Barclay — like his hero before him, the American-born but Canadian-raised author Ross Macdonald — sets his novels in the US.
