Jack Carr

I probably should have asked you before I sent it.

Maybe.

You have a blade that's coming that's supposed to help open the second package that comes, which is the book in a very interesting new package.

Ah, I can't wait.

I can't wait.

It's on its way to you.

Well, from the fan perspective, I was very aware as a kid that Tom Clancy started with Hunt for Red October, moved on to Red Storm Rising, then went to Patriot Games, then Cardinal of the Kremlin, then Clear and Present Danger.

And then the early 90s, he branches out into both nonfiction with a study and command series and a guided tour series.

And it's really based on Have Gun, Will Travel, which is old.

Well, first it was a radio show in the 1950s.

Then it became a late 50s into the 60s.

And I used to watch those with my dad growing up.

So really, that's the foundation for this.

But instead of a hero in the Old West getting on his horse and riding into a new town as that stranger comes to town type of a narrative.

And that's a place that has always stood out to me, a place I always wanted to set a novel because it's just such a colorful city.

A lot to work with is terms of corruption with the police force, with the government.

You don't need to have studied tactics or strategy to know that there was a better way to go about.

He's being hunted by an FBI agent who is a by-the-book guy, constitutional scholar, working his way up the chain at the FBI.

And these guys get closer and closer together as they meet up to this penultimate chapter in the book.

I got pinpoint