I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

... sentiments which Feliks had already come to recognise as being characteristic of The Times, which would have described the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as strong rulers who could do nothing but good for the stability of the international situation.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.