Harriet Tyce

Exactly that.

Exactly that.

And I think that... And, I mean, the reason I chose it was precisely because it isn't entirely clear-cut, because Pinky isn't likeable, yet it is possible to have the compassion.

The passage near the end when he talks about something with great wings beating at him, that if he were to let it in, it would smash everything up.

And, you know, there are flashes where...

his cold, dead soul is perhaps not as cold and not as dead as it might appear.

And what I love is that it is crime fiction.

It is a thriller, that there is this sort of gang warfare, but yet it is something that

that elevates a what's going to happen, who done it, why done it kind of chase into a true study of good and evil and where it lies and who it is that we judge and with whom it is that we sympathise.

And it is not clear.

He's probably one of the first people to have married genre with

high literary concepts and you know that is why I chose it because I hate genre snobbery I you know as a crime writer obviously it's something that I despise and you know I point to Brighton Rock as being one of the earliest and best examples of something that is literature but at the same time is actually a really good story.

Loved it.

Absolutely cracking.

I've only got one complaint about the book, which is that it has photographs at two places in the book, which give away the ending rather, because it reads so much like a thriller.

You simply can't believe that this man is real.

I learned so much from this, particularly about the V2, the second round of flying bombs.

That was fascinating.

Yes.

And to understand that one man carried the weight of expectation of him, of not just the Germans, but also the British.