I Invented The Historical Spy Novel.

I Read Very Little Contemporary Anything.

If You Can Live In Paris, Maybe You Should.

And, With Much Of Europe Occupied By Nazi Germany, And Mussolini's Armies In Albania, On The Greek Frontier, One Wasn't Sure What Came Next. So, Don't Trust The Telephone. Or The Newspapers. Or The Radio. Or Tomorrow.

My Novels Are About The European Reality, Not About Chases. You Want Chases, Get Somebody Else's Books.

I Don't Just Want My Books To Be About The '30s And '40s. I Want Them To Read As If They Had Been Written Then. I Think Of Them As '40s Novels, Written In The Conservative Narrative Past.