I've always been fascinated by politics and interested and disturbed by politics, and i did study it. I feel what i do is quite political, but at the same time, much freer than it would be if i was in actual politics. So you do feel vunerable. There's no place that's going to be a hundred % safe anywhere. Your most recent novel is a story about extremism. What draws people into it? Jehaddy brides. Young men going off, apparently happy to join diesh this torturing, murderous cult. Many people might think, i don't want to understand them. We've seen the back against people like sheve been a begaan