I have been told that my books are dark. In a way that is true. The first three, especially, carried an implicit warning: we (as a country) should be careful who we cosy up with.
One friend queried the ending of 'Courting Rendition', claiming that what happens to the narrator would not happen in real life. Well - so how do we explain this:
In Guantanimo Bay there are still something like 40 prisoners. They have had no trials. Any 'confessions' they made, were made under torture.
Let's not be too sure that terrible deials of justice cannot occur in our (currently) democratic countries.