The Struggles of a Spy Novelist

I understand that someone came up to you, approached you not very long ago and begged you not to do something with a certain character. It's just an epimidior experience. And I should warn you that when people do say to me, please don't kill X or Y, my immediate response is to think, oh, I haven't thought of that. The next one's going to be a bloodbath. That's so many of those. No one go up after this to beg you not to kill the character they don't want you to kill. But what about more generally the sort of style of spy novel? I mean, you've been compared to so many great thriller