You can't make war against terror. Terror is a technique of battle. It's a tactic that has been employed since time immemorial. You can conduct clandestine action against terrorists, and that must be done.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

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

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.

For decades to come the spy world will continue to be the collective couch where the subconscious of each nation is confessed.