Brandon (Everything to Lose)

Brandon is a major character in the thriller novel Everything to Lose by Andrew Gross.

Character creation
Author Andrew Gross identifies two sources he used on the topic of so-called C-U (callous and emotional) children: "When Is a Problem Child Truly Dangerous?" (New York Times, May 13, 2012), and the book Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon.

Autism
Brandon is introduced has having Asperger's. He is also described with "[...] there's a very gray line where Asperger's ends and full-out Autism begins. And that's where Brandon is".