Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

As an Anglo-Indian kid in Bolton, I was basically in a minority of one. That was a source of misery, but at the same time, one of the effects of receiving the message that you don't belong to the club is that you watch the club with detachment. The fact that no one quite knew who I was was a major contributory factor in starting to write.

Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.

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