Most Of My Stories Have Some Basis

Thrillers Have Been Traditionally Very Masculine Books; The Women Characters Often Rather Decorative.

Nevertheless, The Book Gave Jack A Feeling He Had Never Had Before, That The Past Was Like A Story, In Which One Thing Led To Another, And The World Was Not A Boundless Mystery, But A Finite Thing That Could Be Comprehended.

There Was A Very Serious Communist Strain Among American Intellectuals Before The War. America Was A More Tolerant Place In Those Days, And Communists Were Not Treated As Pariahs. That Ended With The Mccarthy Era.

The Thriller Is The Most Popular Literary Genre Of The 20th Century.

Trusting Someone Was Like Holding A Little Water In Your Cupped Hands - It Was So Easy To Spill The Water, And You Could Never Get It Back.