I Invented The Historical Spy Novel.

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.

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.

Wherever God Has Planted You, You Must Know How To Flower - Translated From A French Saying

Politicians Were Like Talking Dogs In A Circus: The Fact That They Existed Was Uncommonly Interesting, But No Sane Person Would Actually Believe What They Said