You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
“I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.”
“I always felt like if you get to a point where you've got enough money to invest in something real, you gotta invest in anything that's related to a natural resource because that's gonna be here forever - so you might as well invest in something that's gonna be here, rather than invest in something ”