>>I’ll be honest, airport thrillers are not the books I usually turn to. But I’d heard lots of good reports about Peter James, and in the week when there was so much controversy about a thriller-writing chair of the Booker, it seemed a good time to speak to him. First of all, of course, I had to read his latest books – and I did really enjoy them. Perfect People combines a little bit of sci-fi, a little bit of genetics and a lot of crime thriller; it feels realistic and only really jumps the shark towards the end when his characters suddenly find themselves transported from a nice Sussex barn… to a secret island base. Still, if you’re in an airport, you’ll love this.
“As a writer I don’t want to write books that are just chewing gum for people’s eyes. When you read a book, you want to be gripped but also learn something new about the world, have your eyes opened to an issue you hadn’t really considered before”
Click the link to read the full interview with Peter James in The National
