Why I wrote Hostile Intent. Michael Walsh says: “When I created ‘Devlin’ [the lead in Hostile Intent] – a man you could walk right by and never notice, so protected is he by his cloak of anonymity – I was looking to honor the kind of men and women who fight our nation’s battles in the bazaars and back alleys of the world’s least glamorous places, with no public acknowledgment of their bravery or their accomplishments, people who often lead (as Devlin does) lives of surpassing, nearly unbearable loneliness.”