Unfortunately it is the weak who destroy the strong.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember.

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.