I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

...it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.

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

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.