I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

You never know," Jack said speculatively. "There may come a time when savages like William Hamleigh aren't in power; when the laws protect the ordinary people instead of enslaving them; when the king makes peace instead of war. Think of that - a time when towns in England don't need walls!