I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that.

No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.

Well, did he do it?" She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.