"If there were to be any Saint books at all, obviously there had to be a first, & this is it. And I still think it was a good thing to have started. And that the fiction world today needs a Saint more than it ever did...Even now, half a century later, I still cling to the belief that there will always be a public for the old-style hero, who had a clear idea of justice, & more than a technical appeal to love, & the ability to have some fun in his crusades"