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

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.

Everybody counts or nobody counts

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

Can't complain because nobody listens.