Douglas Brunt

You know, I'll call my wife like, you won't believe.

And she's like, all right, you know, and then...

How many years did you work on this book?

Well, so the next one you're also going to love.

It's going to end up being a trilogy.

I've started the third one.

The full trilogy will be about 10 years.

Diesel was five years.

Right.

But this is really a companion book to Diesel.

You can read it in any order or independently, one, not the other.

But I came to the Nobel story through the Diesel story.

It's the same time period.

It's really the same decades of, you know, the 1850s through the war.

So this was more like three years because I had so much foundational, atmospheric research was done.

Right.

So it'd be sort of five, three, and three by the time the trilogy is done.

No, I love- What are you doing?

I love the narrative history, the nonfiction narrative history, like the Diesel and the Nobel book.

I would love for this to make it to the screen and someone better at writing screenplays, I hope will do that one day.