Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but dont rise to the level of nuclear.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel.