I Invented The Historical Spy Novel.

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.

Good People Don't Spend Their Time Being Good. Good People Want To Spend Their Time Mowing The Lawn And Playing With The Dog. But Bad People Spend All Their Time Being Bad. It Is All They Think About.

Whether You Like It Or Not, Paris Is The Beating Heart Of Western Civilisation. It's Where It All Began And Ended.

I Expect That My Readers Have Been To Europe, I Expect Them To Have Some Feeling For A Foreign Language, I Expect Them To Have Read Books - There Are A Lot Of People Like That! That's My Audience.

I Don't Inflict Horrors On Readers.