John Lisle

Go to Louisiana Tech Library, get that book.

open it to the page that it says find the quote go okay here's where it is now go to the back of the book see the note the note cites another book it turns out i had that book i owned that book so i went back home go to that book do the same thing look for the source of this quote it turns out it was a book i didn't have in the library didn't have so i had to put an interlibrary loan you know in in use so i had to basically request that my library get the book from a different library

That was going to take several weeks.

So, okay, now I've got to wait.

In the meantime, I go into Google Books.

I start searching this quote for other books.

It turns out they basically cite the books that I had already consulted, so that's a dead end there.

I have to wait for this other book to come in.

And in the meantime, I'm thinking to myself, that quote sounds awfully familiar.

What do I know that from?

It turns out I had already used that quote in my book, but it was from a different –

It was in a different context.

It wasn't talking about William Donovan.

It was talking about just people in the OSS in general.

And the quote was different.

It wasn't like the same quote, but it had many of the key words.

And you could tell that it was the same thing, but somebody had changed it.

So now I'm thinking, did I use like a fake quote, you know, in this book?

So I got to figure out in my manuscript where I got this.

It turns out I got it from this book called Wander by this guy named Sterling Hayden, the actor, later an actor.