Never Underestimate A Man's Ability To Underestimate

While We Were Walking Around, We Came To The Catholic Church, And We Saw That Some People Had Set Fire To Carpets And Banked Them Around The Rectory, Which Was Made Out Of Wood. They Knew Every Fire Truck On The South Side Was Going To Be In The Park, That The Rectory Would Just Burn To The Ground. Our One Little Act Was Putting Out That Fire.

I Had Wanted To Write Ghost Country For A Long Time, But It Wouldn't Work.

I Spent 10 Years As A Marketing Manager. I've Found My Experience In The Financial World Invaluable Background For Writing About White-collar Crimes.

The Decimation Of Lebanon Was Showing Up In Chicago As A Series Of Restaurants And Little Shops, Just As The Destruction Of Vietnam Had Been Visible Here A Decade Earlier. If You Never Read The News But Ate Out A Lot You Should Be Able To Tell Who Was Getting Beaten Up Around The World.

The Crime Novel Has Always Been My Favourite Genre.