The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends to believe the opposite: which puts us all back where we started.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.