The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

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.

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

I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.

Civil servants take forever to do anything.

The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

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