“Separate from the reviews by the public, which I welcome, I get e-mails from readers that have completed or are in the middle of reading my books. Most of them say in their own words that the book cover states fiction but this must have happened in real life because how would I have known pertinent details. At the onset the legal advice was to switch the descriptive from non-fiction and change certain details, so I’m content to leave it at that. The best letter ever was from someone who said that he was reading my book in bed and his wife told him to breathe!”

"Often in the preamble with journalists they ask me why I wrote what I did in faction. My answer always remains the same. I'm not allowed to tell the truth but a lot of what I know becomes heavy on me as I age, so I wrote what I did 'mainly for closure.'"

"Two music fans have written from the opposite ends of the earth asking the same question, to enquire what track was I humming to myself as we advanced up the slopes on the border of Iraq and Iran towards extremists waiting for us at the top (in my third book, chapter two)? The answer is, it was 'All Together Now' by The Farm from the album 'Spartacus'. . .# 'all together now in no man's land'. . .was very fitting."

"Most authors suffer from a rare disease. In German it's called Ludswigssyndrom, which translates in English to mean 'discovering an indecipherable note in your own handwriting' (sic)."