I Invented The Historical Spy Novel.

I Invented The Historical Spy Novel.

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

You Can't Make Accommodations In Crucial Situations And Be Heroic.

It Takes Me Three Months Of Research And Nine Months Of Work To Produce A Book. When I Start Writing, I Do Two Pages A Day; If I'm Gonna Do 320, That's 160 Days.

I Expect That My Readers Have Been To Europe, I Expect Them To Have Some Feeling For A Foreign Language, I Expect Them To Have Read Books - There Are A Lot Of People Like That! That's My Audience.