Harlan Coben

Well, that could be a fun way of learning.

It actually was.

I think it was some trips overseas when I was young where I was able to be taught by better teachers, I think.

But yeah, that was embarrassing.

What does that quite mean?

I was younger because my grandfather and my mother were in the travel business.

So I got to go over.

It's funny.

We didn't have any money to travel when I was a kid.

We didn't go around.

I still, until I started book touring, I really had never seen my own country.

But because my grandfather was, you know, they were chartering planes or whatever else, I could always hop on one and pretty much go for free.

So at the ages of 16, 17, 18, those years, I would go over and sometimes do a little bit of work for him or whatever and stay overseas.

And so sometimes over there, let's just leave it at that.

Good, we can.

I was working one summer when I was in college.

I worked for my grandfather and my mother.

They needed somebody to be in Spain, the Costa del Sol of Spain, to handle the clients that were being sent there.

So I spent eight weeks there.

And it was a very strange experience because I think I was still in college.