When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

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

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?

Why do you have to be the same as the others? ...Most of them are stupid.