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Leatherback symbol Anatole 106650 Jimbo 186-650-5462 extension 6 so we're joined the seeping by attorney and the national bestselling author Alan topo he has written a number of novels 14 of them now of international intrigue including spy dance his novels have been translated to the Chinese Japanese Portuguese and Hebrew He's a graduate of Carnegie tack he measured in chemistry Bantam science got the law degree from Yale and is now a partner in a major Washington d.c. Law firm Alan what got you involved in writing novels of the 1st place well Jim let me say 1st of all it's great to be with you again what got me started is I thought I had things to say about events going on in the world and I wrote a lot of number of nonfiction articles and how they got a little bit of play in the newspapers and people used to wrap fish the next day and I decided writing novels if I could tell a good story I could bring Not points about international offense in a better way and readers could be able to learn something the same time they were turning pages with a thriller so that which got me started I'd love to tell stories I think I have something to say about what's going on in the world and I combined the 2 of them into my say 14 different thrower novels is it for a person who has to deal in facts in a courtroom Is it liberating to deal in things you could just make up well it's greatly liberating in the sense that I'm pulling together a fiction story and that's a lot of fun and that's creative but on the other hand I think my training as a lawyer is probably helpful I've got to have the facts right. Background facts for example this novel deals in part with China and Iran it deals with oil it deals with events in Washington and ultimately the background has to be accurate the facts have to be accurate otherwise I'm going to lose a reader so what that means for me is lots of research on what's going on a number of things I know but lots of research it means visiting the places that I put in the novel because that's important but ultimately the facts have to add up otherwise the reader's going to say this guy doesn't know what he's talking about and he's going to toss the book and find you the most of us don't know I mean you would like a good story and you know I mean if you have a certain. Restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue in Georgetown in Washington d.c. Doesn't really have a dining room that looks like that most of us won't know that that's true but you have silly most of us won't know but what gets me is that there are always a few people out there who do know and then I get e-mails from them for example in one of my early books I had an air force general I was using as a character and I forgotten which way it was but I either put his buttons were gold in the buttons wrist silver and as you say nobody would know who would know but something like that on the other hand I got an email from somebody who was an Air Force officer who politely and nice me told me I was wrong 30 silver or so as I learned and you know when you when you said on the restaurant's interesting I once picked up a book by a well known author and he said that one of his characters got out of a cab on 16th Street in front of the State Department now and you know once you know you Washington the State Department's done in 16 street it's a small fact it doesn't interfere with the story but it makes you wonder about the author himself so for that reason I think we would try to get it right it's an. Sort of professionalism wanting to be accurate I guess I have to wonder in today's Washington d.c. If it isn't hard sometimes to write fiction that is to say if you if you satirize or exaggerate it's hard to do more in fiction than they do in reality isn't that absolutely I mean I once wrote a piece for a magazine asked me for writers I should pity the poor Washington office because we have to think about plots that are sufficiently creative to outdo what's going on in the newspaper for example in this book we're going to talk about the same thing the Washington operator I have a character my villain George Corman who's feeling all greedy lobbyist he's like the kinds of people that we're reading about in the newspaper and and he's even one step worse and so I've met people like this along the way and George Corbin becomes a composite of people that I've met so in that respect yes it's difficult in Washington with the events on the other hand there's an awful lot of good material that you can sort of draw on and I've been in this town a long time as you have we both been here more than 30 years and there is no limit to the good material that there is a lot of material out there certainly and we'll get a further reduction to this character George Corbin in a moment but you speak of him as a composite I'm sure though that there must be people who come up to you and say Allen great book great book. Page 287 is that me. You've heard that before haven't you well I have heard that is that me absolutely and then I have to politely say well no it's a composite of people that that I've met along the way it's not any specific individual but you're absolutely right I did get that from 2 people in connection with this book which is only been out of but 2 months and I find that really quite amusing because it wasn't any one individual in particular here Alan has written the Washington operator and this is published independently published by the way and introduces further to George Korb and you note that he's not the nicest person ever came down the pike in particular how would you describe this character. I would describe him he's a longtime Washington lobbyist he is evil he is venal he has had 3 marriages that have all ended up in divorce and cost him big settlements each time he's castoffs the wife who came before he has no compunction at all about taking money from a foreign government even though it's illegal in order to pad his lifestyle he has no loyalty toward the United States and is willing to sell the country out if the price is right however he is also very powerful and can get things done in Washington knows top people on the hill those top people in the administration as a very powerful network and a very powerful organization so that's how I would describe it and I'd like your your listeners can form their own judgment about who he sounds like to them but that that's all I would write in the book the Washington operator now. There are many cynics out there who would say well describes everybody in d.c. They'll all. Hawk their grandmother. False teeth for for pin money I mean they'll do anything in the world that they have no morals no compunctions no ethics no nothing and there's a lot of cynicism about Washington than in fact that's not true of everybody inside the beltway No it's you're absolutely right it's not true I mean I've dealt with and I've met many honorable people over the years however there are also a bigger percentage of of shall we say skill roles it seems to be in Washington and than elsewhere and I always wonder when I write my books which if this is true because I've heard it go both ways and that's Are there more people who are scoundrels attracted to Washington or is there something in the air I don't mean and you know air we breathe but is there something in the atmosphere that causes people who are otherwise decent people that when they get to Washington and of being not so decent and I don't know the answer that question but I've worried about it a little bit as I've written my books as to as to which is really the case you know what I'm saying Oh very much so I want to get to the what used to be the line between public service and lobbying that used to exist now it's more like an 8 lane freeway but that used to be a line that people were not supposed to to have to pass but I've always argued that if you really want to make money. That you should really go to the private sector. Legally or illegally whatever your personal ethical and and morrow limits happen to be you're still more likely to make money in the private sector than in government you can and obviously there are people who have I'm just simply saying that it's harder and I've always wondered why anybody who wanted to make a a fast buck would use the government path because offers much more resistance than does the private sector again the legal private sector or the illegal private sector. I think you're right I think you're absolutely right Jim what's what's intriguing to me that's happened over the last decade and I deal with this in my book is this is really a radical change along with the age of globalization in business which has happened in the last decade globalization what's also happened is an incredible amount of foreign money is pouring into into Washington to influence our government and that never used to happen I mean there's a huge amount of discussion of course about Mueller and Russia in the last election but that's sort of like at the tip of the iceberg I mean what about huge amounts of Chinese money what about huge amounts of money from Middle Eastern countries I mean there is just so much foreign money and that foreign money will hire anybody they can to help them in any way they can and that is been a radical change in Washington in the last 10 years is the presence in existence because of globalization of foreign money how do you police that I mean that use you know there are laws against that do we just maintain an unofficial wink wink nod nod look the other way I would think that for example anybody who was an ambitious Hot Shot Oh you s. Attorney let's say could could easily make that. The focus of his move upward to the very upper echelons of power in Washington just by going after that so I'm surprised that that much flouting of the law has not attract at least a few people who decided this was a great way to make a reputation. Well what's happened there are laws that you're supposed It's called registration as a foreign agent and you have to register if you're if you are a foreign agent and you're taking money from a foreign country but the problem is until very recently and those laws weren't very strictly enforced and as a result people could do whatever they wanted to do now that's starting to change suddenly that that was just a law on the books suddenly now that law is becoming enforced and so a lot of people are nervous because what was legal what they were doing that was illegal they were getting away with they didn't have to worry about prosecution but but now it's changing and the prosecutors are now going after people so I think we're having to change the laws have been on the books the laws unfortunately haven't been strictly enforced and therein lies the problem. Again maybe someone will rise to the occasion who knows now regarding the whole line between. Being in government and being in the private sector that used to be a pretty firm line just as there was a line between for example being in the media covering government and being in government and these as I say the line has been virtually erased I've never understood why we don't do something about people who maybe have spent a dozen years chairing the House Committee on widgets who then retires from office and becomes a leading lobbyist for the widget industry cashing in on all the contacts that he's made over the years why is that even legal you're right it shouldn't be I mean technically I think there's a there's a shortened moratorium period I mean I forgot if it's one year or 2 and you're too short to make any difference it's too short to make any difference you know is that you're going to beat somewhere planning on all the money you're going to be making soon right and you can get around to do join a law firm and then you talk to other. People in the law firm go out and do the work so as a practical matter but you're absolutely right it should be strictly enforced so that you can't go out and start lobbying for the widget industry after that's who you've been regulating for years in Congress I totally agree with that because there is a tremendous amount of cynicism in this country an amazing amount I think to a great extent the Donald Trump phenomenon was a tidal wave of the gross national cynicism that they were up to here with this kind of behavior and the saw in Donald Trump a man who want to burn else he may or may not be would be honest and going after the sort of thing now you can argue whether that is the reason not the case and Trump was or was not the person to do that but I think that that was a large motivating factor for a good deal of the Trump vote Oh I absolutely agree and one of his phrases it was a wonderful phrase that when he got to Washington he was going to drain the swamp and you know and that was a terrific phrase and I think a lot of people bought into that and that would be you know would make sense if he was unfortunately 3 years later is you know and I'm not saying it's his fault maybe there are other factors you couldn't control it but I have to tell you if a swamp is is anything but drained If anything it's it's it's carrying on it full bore these days it does seem to to be rather resilient does it not we'll continue our conversation with the album Topol again an attorney based in the nation's capital the national best selling author of some 14 novels of international intrigue and his latest is called the Washington operator and it is quite a tale it features as a key character one George Corbin will learn more about what's Corbin does in this book and for that matter how realistic this is we'll be back in just a moment. 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Welcome back to Jimbo had a job in the 6650 Jimbo when 866-505-4626 we talked with Alan Topol He's an attorney and the novelist and a novelist of considerable note an attorney I might add of considerable note as well is the book the Washington operator is now available and is described as a political thriller and it is just that so George Corbin he gets involved with China to try to take over Middle Eastern oil how does that work without destroying too much of the plot of course for the audience but at 1st glance that would seem an obvious way to do that Ok so how it works is Jim in just 3 sentences for maybe China and Iran get together to take over Saudi Arabia and its oil Corben age them because he has support he has the power in the United States to try to get the United States government not to intervene and block them he's a powerful lobbyist ultimately their plans Iran and China getting together are blocked by Kelly Cameron She's a rising f.b.i. Agent a single mom who flex attacks on her life I also if thrown in to add a little spice a 40 year old romance between an Israeli Mossad agent and a member of the ears of Iranian foreign service but at the heart of this novel is Iran and China coming together to take over Saudi Arabian oil and do battle against the United States and in the Middle Eastern oil and that's at the heart of the novel and Corbin is somebody who aids and assists them he's their Washington Rep to try to keep the u.s. From in. Meaning to block them you know if I had to name one government on this planet that I would deem least likely to last another whole it's say 30 years. I don't know North Korea might be on the list but I'm not so sure it might just be the royal family of Saudi Arabia they are such an anachronism such a throwback to to the well I was going to say to the Middle Ages of the Dark Ages really and of course we had their recent move to to allow women now to travel abroad without an escort and then follow this vision the long before to allow women to drive I mean they're there they're just discovering the beginnings of the 20th century and here it is the beginnings of the 21st century your thoughts See I agree with you Jim And that's exactly why I put my might apply this way because I think that they are right to be to be taken over and and they're sitting on all of that oil and China wants and needs the oil the Iranians of course hate the Saudis and there's a clash not just between Shiites and Sunni's But there's also a long historical clash between Persians and Arabs and so when you put those things together as I was framing the plot I said to myself well why not have China and Iran come together and why shouldn't they go in and pull off and reel off Saudi Arabia and it seemed to make sense I mean I actually thought to plot ended up being realistic not something that somebody would say Ah come on this couldn't happen so that was kind of my take on it Jim we have a course of the old and axiom that politics makes strange bedfellows international politics would seem to make strange bedfellows diplomacy makes Grange bedfellows you had for example during the closing days of the fight to destroy the physical territory of the. ISIS state in western Iraq and eastern Syria you had cooperation between u.s. Airstrikes and Iranian militias on the ground and of course there are a few more untag in history groups on the planet and yet since we were both fighting the ISIS state why it was helpful to keep u.s. Airstrikes from attacking positions held by the Iranian militias Likewise there's not much that you would could really say that would tie together Iran and China except maybe I don't know hatred of the great Satan or. Purely purely venal considerations for in the know it illogical tie there are just odd I think to note the various combinations that can exist on this planet the help for example that Pakistan has apparently given to for example North Korea in terms of its nuclear weapons program the sort of thing it's there seems to be no limit to the old axiom that occurred in World War 2 when Britain and and Stalin and later the United States allied against Hitler and. Winston Churchill at the time said. The alliance with the foam union that. They if the devil joined in the fight against Hitler then I would try to find something nice to say about him your thoughts about these strange bedfellows Well I think I mean I'll start with a sort of an old Arabs expression the enemy of my enemy is my friend and that's that's that's certainly true but here as I thought about it putting together Iran and China did it make sense and why would it make sense what would they have in common and as I thought they had 2 powerful things in common that could have them come together number one both are locked in a conflict with the United States I mean Iran certainly is on its face and has been for years even going back to Jimmy Carter China is now and it has come out within the last several years is also locked into a long term conflict with the us and this current trade war is simply one manifestation the Chinese are working hard and struggling to surpass the United States as the dominant world power and so in that sense they are in competition with the u.s. So that's one thing that could drive these 2 countries together the other thing that could drive these 2 countries together is oil which is to. Terribly important to the Iranians because that's the cash and the money they need that they want to get it and sell it and the Chinese need energy needs huge amounts of energy to keep their their big industrial machine running so that's a thing that they have in common wanting to control Middle Eastern oil so it was those 2 things the competition or animosity with the u.s. And the desire to control Middle Eastern oil that made this not such an unlikely alliance you know in the other thing is when you read history and I know Jim you read a lot of history is China and Persia let's call it per year for a minute Iran China and Persia or or historically I mean the long time great civilizations in the past and so you know them getting together because as you say over the years all sorts of nations have gotten together so these may be strange bedfellows but not so strange when you press it a little bit. Our guest Alan topo attorney and national best selling author his latest work Washington operator 186650 Jimbo 186-650-5462 extension 6 Why won't they do inside the beltway We'll be back in a moment. Diabetes high blood pressure hangs i.v. 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On the back of the gym having children 866-566-5054 extension 626 Allen Topol I guessed and he's written the Washington operator now we take a call or 2 for you here Alan I must confess what I'm hearing so far reminds me a great deal of j.r. Ewing from the t.v. Series Dallas and one point he was engaged in privately financed KUSA this kind of thing other than being a great read and I think a really good beach read is this kind of thing in your view realistic not just of the core but it would try something like this but that he might succeed Well I think it is very much so because I think that Washington lobbyists are doing the work if you want to call it the dirty work for foreign governments and and there and they are helping out these governments in Washington and so I think in that sense it is it is realistic because people like corporate are getting paid an awful lot of money to help foreign governments is twist around the Washington bureaucracy and administration to get it to do things for them so I think that is that is realistic but as you said I wanted to be realistic but on the other hand I wanted to be a good be treated I mean I want character I want the readers to become attached to Kelly Cameron and her struggles with her daughter the same time she's trying to be an f.b.i. Agent and her life's being threatened so you know that we stick together with it but as you pointed out those are the 2 strands to the Washington operator when it's 6650 Jimbo and 866-505-4626 minutes talk to Dave he is in actually I guess it's Davey in Tyler Texas hello Davey Hello sorry how this kind of question for your guest I think this is a very timely novel actually come at this time because I've always thought lately with the way the United States kind of throwing our weight around out there on the playground that you know all the kids can kind of gang up at some point now some is wondering if Russia has a role at this level. Actually I've written other novels about Russia but I put them down into the background of this novel and I haven't I've kept them not in the front of this novel I mean they're sort of a small player but I have another novel in which I have Russia and China getting together because of course Russia is a big player but on this one I wanted to concentrate on China and Iran and I'm very interested to hear about your comments because I think you've you've correctly you know put your finger on what I've been trying to do in this book so you know day very very much loosely and again the name of the book is The Washington operator it's published by a miniseries written by Allen Topol t o p o l And we're at 186650 Jimbo when 866-505-4626 most people I don't think are aware of probably the extent of the lobbying influence in Washington. Resample you may hear occasional references to k. Street in Washington the streets in in Washington running east to west are letters of the alphabet and the case going I guess was sort of the the headquarters for the big places right. Yep there was a time when they said k. Street was the place for the lobbyists and habit and it also had another colloquial name for k. Street was referred to as Gucci gel Gulch Yes Ligi that will make what happened is that actually is you know now the whole lobbying industry has expanded in Washington and no longer is it is it limited to sort of a small area of k. Street which it was then now it's spread out across the the downtown and if anything there's more of a proximity toward Capitol Hill than there used to be because k. Street's a little bit removed as you know from Capitol Hill not that big downtown Washington State that large but there is been a shift in a movement eastward among big firms law firms and lobbying firms to get closer to Capitol Hill because that's where so much of the action is and as we were saying earlier what's changed the dynamic and expand the whole lobbying business is the fact that the foreign money is now coming in and wanting to hire the lobbyist because 10 years or so ago it was just domestic corporations industries and and that's now changed a this is globalization and the Washington lobbying industry has definitely gone global and so you've got everything on hand in Washington to. Shall we say fuel this this industry not only all of those embassies that exist there and they're all over the city there that place called Embassy Row along Massachusetts Avenue but if you are newer or not as prominent a country they'll find a place for your embassy somewhere out there and then again also if you ever go through the the white pages in the nation's capital and just look at the listings under American. Association and national They're everybody everybody in his world the left handed pretzel. Whiskers I must have an association in Washington somewhere and in fact it is so much that I once did a feature on the I forget the exact precise name of a but it's the association of association that's right all these associations themselves have an organization and I'm sure that they must lobby Capitol Hill for this that and the other so if you will just all of those people assembled in the nation's capital form almost I guess Alan a perfect storm for the kind of abuse they do no you're absolutely right and as you said and what it's attracted to is a large number of industries have moved their corporate headquarters or their industry center to Washington I mean for example in the aerospace industry most of the large companies have now moved their corporate headquarters to Washington and that's true in a number of other areas too and so in that sense people want to be close to their government the reason they want to be close to their government because they want to be able to influence their government and so it's caused this mushroom in growth in Washington which used to be just a little backwater that catered to the government but as you said if you have an association you want to plant your association in Washington where it can influence the government. Absolutely government for sale 186650 Jimbo 186-650-5462 extension 62 continue our discussion with Alan to Paul in just a moment. Did you ever look at the stains in your coffee cup and then realize that's exactly what happens to your teeth power swabs is the 5 minute solution to get your teeth white without visiting the dentist this is John Green House the c.e.o. 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Was about to Bill and it showed $26650.00 Jimbo 186-6505 more than $6.00 to $6.00 at the Allen TOEFL our guest he is an attorney and a novelist whose latest work the Washington operator and use of the time we have on an author who has written the book is out in the vailable he's already hard at work on his next work so care to give us a preview Yeah absolutely the next book I'm working on involves a I've shifted with one of your players as I moved on to Russia and I have a a run in a new character and my character is a former CIA agent and he is has a lover girlfriend is a pianist and they go off on a vacation to Corsica and she is attacked in Corsica and what the attack is brought on is by his empathy to the Russian president so in my next novel it will be the United States pitted against the Russians and my hero is going to be doing battle with them and as a result of the shooting of the young woman that he's attached to so it's going to be us in Russia in the next book just as it was us in China in this book but again I'd like it to be a fast moving story that is you put it will be a be treated people will want to read as I hope they'll want to read the Washington operator absolutely would you like to see the Washington operator or for that matter maybe even the. Washington lawyer of Washington power play would you like to see these made into let's say a movie and if so who would you cast in the lead roles Well absolutely I mean and I can. Working very hard on this on this movie business and it is very hard getting pushing the peanut up up the hill in Hollywood we have a we have one of my books a woman of Valor which has an opportunity to be made and made to and movie in and that won the heroine of that one we've been working with hopefully to try to get Natalie Portman involved but you know it's tough in this Hollywood business and there are a lawful of awful lot of throwers that go on the screen but I have 3 of them that are in development and I've got my fingers crossed and I don't care who they cast I just like them to get them on the screen would you want to write the screenplay because I know that you have a lot more control over what they do to your baby. Actually I have been up that road and I'm generally told by the people in Hollywood hey go write your next novel we have people who write screenplays and let them do it so I would get out of the way I would be very happy to take the check and I hope that they don't destroy my book too much and and just get out of the way because they don't want to novelists they they're people who know that skill and they do it themselves so that's Ok with me this is an accommodating viewpoint I've known people who weren't too thrilled about even though of course yes they too took the check and they cashed it but they they were not too thrilled with what this this this book that's been the the subject of their their work for so long I think I talked to one author one time who said that he wrote a book which was inspired by what Hollywood did to a previous book it was such so changed that it was a natural evolution to write another book that was really hard to even link to the 1st one well my sense about it having spent enough time on Hollywood working with producers hey that's just the way life is and if you want to go into this business that's what that's the way it's going to be and you can't control what they're going to do with your book and if you think you're going to try to control you're really just just kidding yourselves then keep it away from Hollywood that's unfortunately it's a fact of life and I think as an author I would say to your friend grow up that's kind of the way it is and. What's your your your work schedule in as much as you actually have a day job when you squeeze in writing well from fortunate I don't have to sleep very much so I get up I get up early in the morning and that for me that's the best time to write and I travel a great deal airplanes are good and whenever I travel I'm always writing I'm very old fashioned I think and write better with a legal pad and a pen in my hand so wherever I go I'm writing and squeezing in the time but it's not so bad Jim having a job because what it means. Is that rather than having to sit and look at that blank page every day for a certain number of hours when you're squeezing in the time when I'm not writing ideas are percolating around in my mind and the business is a great way to do that because you meet people you meet different people who are interesting you come across situations and they sort of lend themselves and then you can work them into your novels I mean that way I could work in some of the events in Washington the George the jury foreman kind of thing from the Washington operator so to me while you we're going to have to wrap on that note we will speak with you off air here Alan Topol his latest thriller The Washington operator I'm Jim Boeheim and this is Westwood one. Yes you c.b.s. 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