Jack Carr

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 then he also starts with a co-written thriller series to expand that audience, to broaden that base, more offerings out rather than.

And for him, it was every couple of years a book.

Now, for me, it's every year, but still the same type of.

type of model so i saw that of course he's doing video games and he has the movies and of course now after he's passed on there's the television show for him but uh as a kid reading all those books from the fan perspective i saw that expansion and so i knew i had a ton of stories to tell this was one that i wrote down in december of 2014 when i wrote a bunch of different ideas down as i was getting ready to leave the military decided on the terminal list which i think was a good decision but i kept coming back to this one yeah the fourth

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 TV show in the 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.

Now I have Chris Walker, former SEAL, former CIA operative, a student of philosophy.

These philosophers are battling for control of his soul.

But he gets in his Volkswagen bus, pop top camper from the mid 80s with his Belgian Malinois dog next to him.

And for his first city, he rides in to New Orleans.

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.

government officials and that sort of thing.

So it's very ripe as far as a background for a novel like this.