I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't.
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
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.
There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.