Jack Carr

Turn into a snake.

I've heard that exactly.

Exactly.

But yeah, the book, 1968, Vietnam.

And I thought this was going to be the book that was going to take me the least amount of time because I thought I had this foundation of knowledge when it comes to warfare, Vietnam in particular, those lessons.

I've had the influence of popular culture when it comes to the 60s and Vietnam as well growing up.

So I thought I was well prepared to dive into this world.

And I didn't want to just say that they're listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival and that it's 1968 and then essentially drop a contemporary thriller

into the 60s, into Vietnam 1968.

Instead, I wanted someone who lived through that era to know that I put in the effort and any sentence had to be written through the lens of 1968 without the benefit of 50 plus years of hindsight.

So if someone is 70 years old, 50 years old, 20 years old, they only have their life experience up to that point to make a decision for perspective on an event.

And that took

A lot more time than I thought.

I got a dictionary from 1969.

I couldn't find the one from 1968 I wanted, so I got a dictionary from 1969 to look at how terms were defined back then.

A lot of maps from the era, and it took a lot longer, which is why we're here in October and not in June when the book was supposed to come out.

Is there a lot of difference?

I'm sure there is, but I was looking at just some specific terms that I can't remember what they are right now.

And you just wanted to look them up through that book.

Yeah, I didn't want to Google something today.