If There Is One Eternal Truth Of

America Has Entered One Of Its Periods Of Historic Madness, But This Is The Worst I Can Remember.

What Else Has A Journalist To Do These Days, After All, But Report Life's Miseries?

In The Hands Of Politicians Grand Designs Achieve Nothing But New Forms Of The Old Misery.

All Power Corrupts But Some Must Govern.

The World Of Spying Is My Genre. My Struggle Is To Demystify, To De-romanticise The Spook World, But At The Same Time Harness It As A Good Story.