A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

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