The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

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

Hunger is the best seasoning.

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!

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

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