"For me it's a sort of historical novel. Look at the different time periods where the action takes place - Renaissance Venice, Elizabethan England, Gin Lane in London, out in Abyssinia in the time of Queen Victoria, and the present day - in London and Prague. It's an adventure story. With a lot of action. I love the brawl in the bar in Venice, and the gondola chase and the sly Kakonin in Prague trying to outwit our hero Ben. And it's a romance, too...."