I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and your heart -- in the opening scenes and never lets go.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.