Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.

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

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

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

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

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.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.