I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.
“How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?”
“We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.”