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.
“You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.”
“No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.”