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What Brighton's Got Is A Major Sea Port On Either Side, Good For Importing Drugs, Great For Exporting Cash, Stolen Cars, Stolen Antiques. It's Got The Largest Number Of Antique Shops In The Uk, So It's A Great Place To Fence Stolen Goods. It's Got Tremendous Communication: You've Got The Sea Ports, You've Got The Channel Tunnel, You've Got Gatwick Airport 25 Minutes Away, And London's 50 Minutes Away By Train. So All These Escape Routes... Which Is What Villains Like.

I Guess A Lot Of Police Keep Their Sanity By Developing Black Humour.

Sometimes The Body Gets Out Of Bed An Hour Before The Brain.

Stalin Was Experimenting With Telepathy In The 1930's. Winston Churchill Had A Paranormal Office, Trying To Get People To Travel Out Of Their Bodies And See Behind Enemy Lines In The Second World War. And The Pentagon... The X-files Is Based On A Real Department In The Pentagon, That's Still There Now. Pretty Much Every Government, Probably As Far Back In Time As We Can Go, Has One. And The Police Will Quite Often - And When I Say Often, I Mean Often - They Will Go To Mediums If All Else Fails In The Enquiry.

Every Novel Starts With A Theme, And I Am Constantly Looking For Big Ideas.