When I Finish A Book,

We're Capable Of Understanding That Someone Has To Drop An Atomic Bomb On A Town Of Innocent Civilians, But Not That Others Have To Cut Up Prostitutes Who Spread Disease And Moral Depravity In The Slums Of London. Hence We Call The Former Realism And The Latter Madness.

I Have Questioned Myself About The Brutality In The Last Few Novels. Actually In The Leopard, In Hindsight, I Feel I Went A Little Bit Too Far With Screaming Blood. There Are A Couple Of Scenes That I Regret And Wish I Had The Chance To Rewrite. Phantom Has Less Blood.

I Feel More Related To Some American Crime Writers Than I Do To Stieg Larsson.

Ever Since I Was In My Teens I Had Plans At One Point In My Life To Write A Novel.

Phantom' Was For Me An Interesting Technique Of Telling The Story. You Have One Voice That It Is In The Present Telling What Is Happening, And Then There's One Voice From The Past That's Also Driving The Story Forward. And You Know That The Two Story Lines Will Meet Eventually.