My Novels Are About The

You Write A Lot Of Books; You Hope You Get Better.

I Invented The Historical Spy Novel.

The Printing Presses Of The State Treasuries Cranked Out Reams Of Paper Currency- Showing Wise Kinds And Blissful Martyrs- While Bankers Wept And Peasants Starved.

Once You Have Your Characters, They Tell You What To Write, You Don't Tell Them.

I Don't Just Want My Books To Be About The '30s And '40s. I Want Them To Read As If They Had Been Written Then. I Think Of Them As '40s Novels, Written In The Conservative Narrative Past.