Jack Carr

They like to get rid of that author right away so you're not on set saying, you ruined my vision.

You help add value.

Yeah.

You want to make it the best show you possibly can.

Yeah.

Because you only have an hour and a half, two hours.

Yeah, your books take hours to read.

Yeah, and we have seven hours for Dark Wolf, eight hours for The Terminalist.

We'll have eight hours for True Believer.

Yeah, and that is the hunting stuff in it.

So once again, now, I think for some reason if we'd started with that or if I'd started with that as a book, then it would have been much more difficult because Amazon would have been much more hesitant.

But since we had a success with The Terminalist—

Now they're taking this risk with us, just like my publisher did.

It would have been very easy as a publisher to say, hey, just do what you did in that first book.

That was successful.

So just take that same kind of stuff and just drop it maybe internationally or something like that.

Instead, I had this whole journey across.

In the book, it's the Atlantic.

In the show, it's going to be the Pacific.

But going across this journey of violent redemption, he still thinks he's going to die, gets to Mozambique, still thinks he's going to die, doesn't die yet because he has this tumor, and then uses the skills from Iraq and Afghanistan to help with the poaching problem over there.