The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

When I wrote my eighth thriller, Inside Out, in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.