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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

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.

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

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

I love the spy genre.

Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them.

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

If we are going to conduct espionage in the future, we are going to have to make some changes in the relationship between the intelligence community and the public it serves.