For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

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

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

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

Breathtakingly real and utterly compelling, Immoral dishes up page-turning psychological suspense while treating us lucky readers to some of the most literate and stylish writing you'll find anywhere today.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.