I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

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

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

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!

I started writing stories in my spare time.