I have been blessed to have the same editor and work for a great publishing house.

I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.