He and his wife, Kathryn Harrison, live in Brooklyn. Dianne Day, TBR Writer and author herself, was excited to talk to Harrison about his latest book. No, but it's apt. He is going into battle, and his fear would be no less than that of a medieval knight. He's superstitious and careful and professionally anxious.
Thrillers are generally plot-driven.
If you know what your characters want, you often can figure out what will happen and what their actions will be. In this sense, character and plot are indivisible, or should be. That said, I always go back and back again and tinker with both elements to get that meshing to which you refer. There's no secret. Or if there is, I don't know what it is.