The Way To Write A Thriller Is

Hit Them Fast, Hit Them Hard, And Hit Them A Lot.

The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life.

The Thriller Is Not A Recent Invention. It Probably Goes Back To The Dawn Of Storytelling.

People, Reacher Was Certain About. Dogs Were Different. People Had Freedom Of Choice. If A Man Or A Woman Ran Snarling Toward Him, They Did So Because They Chose To. They Were Asking For Whatever They Got. His Response Was Their Problem. But Dogs Were Different. No Free Will. Easily Misled. It Raised An Ethical Problem. Shooting A Dog Because It Had Been Induced To Do Something Unwise Was Not The Sort Of Thing Reacher Wanted To Do.

I Had A Brief Theater Background And Loved The Backstage World There's More Backstage Work In Television, So I Saw A Job Advertised And Applied, And Got It. That Was Back In 1977, When Getting Jobs Was Easy.