I Read Very Little Contemporary Anything.

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.

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.

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

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

One Is What One Has The Nerve To Pretend To Be.