The best Paris I know now is in my head.
I'm not really a mass market writer.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
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