Hatred will always give birth to more and more hate, and love has the power to demolish the borders between us.

Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the new order of things - and in each of these people is a bit of Putin. They have come together to make the image we know as Putin. Putin himself is just the tip of an iceberg.

I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.

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