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.

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

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.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

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

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

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