So Long As Readers Keep Reading And

The Key To Thrillers Is Vicarious Pleasure.

Everything You Could Want - Action, Suspense, Character And Setting, All Floating On The Easy Lyricism Of A Fine Writer At The Top Of His Game.

I Write In The Afternoon, From About 12 Until 6 Or 7. I Use An Upstairs Room As My Office. Once I Get Going I Keep At It, And It Usually Takes About Six Months From The First Blank Screen Until 'the End.

Don't Get It Right - Get It Written!

I Wanted Readers To Be Genuinely Unsure As To Whether She's Telling The Truth Or Lying. It Meant Making Her Partly Sympathetic, And Partly Unsympathetic, Which Wasn't Easy.