I have lived in a time and a place in which everyone, not only criminals, exempts themselves from obeying the law. When the time or need arises, anyone - for instance, a wealthy technocrat and watchmaking enthusiast - will find reasons to consider that the law does not apply to him and will proceed as a result.

I would like to have a reader who is an accomplice to the text and the story. They run the risk, however, of becoming the accomplice to a murder.

D.J.A.