Anthony Scaramucci

And I have to ask you this question, you know, why the Iberian Peninsula in the 1500s?

And let me just, I'm going to surmise something and then ask you to finish the sentence.

You've got Christians, Muslims, and Jews are all colliding on the Iberian Peninsula.

So this has happened before.

We seem to have it happening right now in our own contemporary history.

Is that why you chose this period of time?

No, actually.

You caught it beautifully.

So my follow-up question, though,

is this is really a meditation from violence.

This is really, you're trying to get somebody to release the curse that he's under, where he's fighting as a Spartan, a Macedonian.

You know, we've been fighting.

And by the way, we, United States, has been fighting for a generation, Steven Pressfield.

We've been on the battlefield.

The U.S.

is now in an active conflict with Iran.

We've had ethnic conflicts all over the place, starting with the Gulf War I in 1990.

So does this cycle of your novel also fit our times?

Are we trying to also get a metaphorical release?

from the generational warfare that we're under.