The Specialness of Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland, where I grew up, from 10 months old until age 16, when I fled its confines for Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Deutsche Bank has just named Zürich the No. 1 city in the world for quality of life. True, a wholesome and exquisite life awaits you there, with many lovely attributes, but like all places on earth, it also has a dark side, all of which hovers over my novel coming out Sep 1st: THE MAN WITH NO BORDERS