Need a little brainstorming help, which is literally about firing a gun!
So around the 80% mark of my novel and my MC needs to be able to fire a gun well enough to injure the antagonist. Problem is, in what I've written so far there is no hint that he's ever picked up a gun, never mind able to expertly shot-to-injure someone. The story is set in the UK/Ireland, and works as a QC/Barrister, so professionally has no professional reason for being able to use a firearm. Backstory: thirty years ago, my MC was the only witness to his father's murder by the IRA, ever since he's been living under witness protection. The best idea I can come up with, as a younger man he has been so terrified of the killers finding him, he has learned to use a gun (shooting ranges?) but has quickly got rid of it after becoming a father himself. His wife knows nothing of his past, and definitely not about ever owning a firearm. However, I'm not sure how to foreshadow/drop this into the book at earlier stages, yet still making it a surprise to the reader?
So around the 80% mark of my novel and my MC needs to be able to fire a gun well enough to injure the antagonist. Problem is, in what I've written so far there is no hint that he's ever picked up a gun, never mind able to expertly shot-to-injure someone. The story is set in the UK/Ireland, and works as a QC/Barrister, so professionally has no professional reason for being able to use a firearm. Backstory: thirty years ago, my MC was the only witness to his father's murder by the IRA, ever since he's been living under witness protection. The best idea I can come up with, as a younger man he has been so terrified of the killers finding him, he has learned to use a gun (shooting ranges?) but has quickly got rid of it after becoming a father himself. His wife knows nothing of his past, and definitely not about ever owning a firearm. However, I'm not sure how to foreshadow/drop this into the book at earlier stages, yet still making it a surprise to the reader?