Brad Meltzer

He opens up the door and there's all these old suits and like, you know, like what your grandmother would wear to a wedding, like a sequined gown.

And he says, if you're if you're old and you don't have a lot of family, you pick out what you're going to wear to your funeral.

But it's also got like a Jets jersey in there.

There's a cowboy hat that someone says, my ex-wife hated this hat.

Make sure I'm wearing it in my coffin.

Like people are wild.

And I said, that's the best hiding spot I've ever seen.

This is one of the most incredible stories I've ever been a part of.

When I was researching my book, I went to the morticians and I said, have you ever seen like a, could someone hide a secret message on their body, maybe in a tattoo?

And they said to me,

If you're on an airplane and the plane is about to go down and you write a quick note and then you eat that note that the liquids in your stomach will actually preserve the note upon the crash.

And I said, oh, that's a really good idea.

And they said to me, that's not an idea.

It really happened on 9-11.

One of the morticians who I was talking to was one of the people, you know, all the Dovers where not just our fallen soldiers go, but where the 9-11 victims went.

And they were working on one of the bodies there and they found a note that someone ate on 9-11.

They would not tell me what was in it, but that's what I used in the book.

And it was one of the most chilling, incredible stories ever.

from the firsthand person who did it and found it.

Of course.