Doug Brunt

He's like, everyone loves the book.

It's charming.

It's atmospheric.

It takes us to this early Downton Abbey era and a crazy mystery.

And it's super fun and great history, except the title.

We got to change the title.

I'm like, what?

That's the one thing we had.

So they had come up with a different title.

And in the last second, it was that.

So those things happen.

And it's kind of a fun part of the journey when the book is all aspects of it.

I really love the research and time in the archives.

All of it is great.

But these fun little twists at the end and looking at the cover art, the S&S cover art team, their art department is amazing.

It's very cool.

And it's always interesting to hear or see how someone else has an expression of the story, you know, like what they come up with for a cover of this book you just spent years writing.

Author of Moneyball and Blindside and Liar's Poker.

I'm glad you played that clip.

I got to follow up with Michael Lewis to find out how the Bannon meeting went.