Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

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.

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

The City. Can't you hear it? People. Machines. Even thoughts so thick your bones feel it and your ear almost catches it.