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I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

Thrillers have become all about technology and using technology. That seemed, to me, not so interesting.

I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.

It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going.

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.