@Trilby: It's not so much 'don't piss me off' as 'don't make any of those stupid arrow in the knee jokes'. I'm not a total blackhearted bastard... quite the opposite. That thing with the rats? Yeah, that was someone else's idea that I rewrote.
In related news, Matthew Reilly is an amazing writer. If you haven't read any of his work, you have no soul.