I Think That Brighton, For A Crime

Obviously I Don't Have Whatever It Is You Need To Be A Successful Writer.

There's A Really Classic Cliche Every Time You Switch The Tv On - You See Cops Arguing. I Have Spent A Day A Week For Many Years In The Presence Of Police And I Have Never Seen Them Argue. It's A Military Hierarchy. They Do What They're Told. There's No Bickering.

I Travel Abroad Constantly On Book Promotion And Research, And The Internet Is Invaluable To Me For Accessing U.k. News In Places Such As America, Which Most Of The Time Hasn't Heard Of England.

If You Talk To Any Cop, However Hardened, And Say, "has Anything That's Ever Bothered You", They'll Tell You About The Death Of A Child That They Had To Deal With.

Stalin Was Experimenting With Telepathy In The 1930's. Winston Churchill Had A Paranormal Office, Trying To Get People To Travel Out Of Their Bodies And See Behind Enemy Lines In The Second World War. And The Pentagon... The X-files Is Based On A Real Department In The Pentagon, That's Still There Now. Pretty Much Every Government, Probably As Far Back In Time As We Can Go, Has One. And The Police Will Quite Often - And When I Say Often, I Mean Often - They Will Go To Mediums If All Else Fails In The Enquiry.