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I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

You never know how - or when - the idea for a book will appear.

A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day.

Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw.

Remarkably, governments are beginning to embrace the idea that nothing enhances democracy more than giving voice and information to everybody in the country. Why not open their books if they have nothing to hide?

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.