No.

Um, every, every writer I know is a reader first and foremost.

It's, it's only by immersing yourself in, in that kind of world that you, you learn to think that way.

I mean, i-if it wasn't for Desmond Bagley, if it wasn't for James Herriot, if it wasn't for Gerald Durrell, there is no chance I'd be a writer.

I don't know what I'd be doing.

So, so being a reader has made me a writer.

W-- A-and that's the greatest gift that I've, I've ever had when I, when I think about it.

While paying hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation, they did deny that they, that they, that they were responsible for anything, but your, your, your memory is correct of that case.

So listen, Neil, just for those who haven't had the pleasure of your company before, just give us a kind of 60-second potted police career.

Well, I mean, I was, I grew up in, I was born in Liverpool.

I grew up in Kent, in Sevenoaks in Kent.

And a slightly dodgy council estate, in fact.

But then I joined the RAF police, 1983.

And I did that for six years.

I was a dog handler.

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