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.

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

Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

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

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.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.