Michael Connelly

the advent of surgery and dealing with infection and so forth.

And it's kind of in ways icky book, but it's like amazing.

Yeah, the butchering art.

Yeah, yeah.

If you can get past it.

I think the first chapter kind of is like a weed out chapter.

It's not as intense after that, but it's just fascinating, especially when you look back.

from 150 years or so of knowledge, you know, and you know what happened afterwards.

It's just the great intentions of people, the horrible mistakes that had to be made before they learned this is not the right way to go.

That kind of thing is, I thought it was pretty fascinating.

Yeah.

Right now, I'm trying to finish a book by the first week of January, and I am behind.

Actually, it's the guy from The Poet, the reporter, Jack McAvoy.

He comes back.

I seem to check in with him every 10 years.

And the news business, the media has changed so dramatically in just the last 10 years.

There's a lot of catching up to do and a lot of exploration of what he's been doing for 10 years and the difficulties and so forth.

So I'm having a good time with it.

But because I'm involved in writing on the Bosch TV show, I've had to drop the book and come back to it after writing a script and so forth.

So I'm behind.