Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed.

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

It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.