No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.