I Don't Really Write Plots. I Use

Good People Don't Spend Their Time Being Good. Good People Want To Spend Their Time Mowing The Lawn And Playing With The Dog. But Bad People Spend All Their Time Being Bad. It Is All They Think About.

I Grew Up Reading Genre Writers, And To The Degree That Eric Ambler And Graham Greene Are Genre Writers, I'm A Genre Writer.

Live Today, For Tomorrow We Die.

I Don't Just Want My Books To Be About The '30s And '40s. I Want Them To Read As If They Had Been Written Then. I Think Of Them As '40s Novels, Written In The Conservative Narrative Past.

Whether You Like It Or Not, Paris Is The Beating Heart Of Western Civilisation. It's Where It All Began And Ended.