It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Spread love and understanding,” Reacher said. “Use force if necessary.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.