Company as apublic service and brought to you today by your television provider. Hey everyone, im in number of the event staff here and id like to welcome you all this evening to politics and prose. A few quick notes, but tv is here with us and we are filming for our own Youtube Channel so with that in mind if you could take a moment of silence your cell phones, the opry two to, snap, however you like to use social media, just do it silently and along those same lines when we get to the q a portion we have one microphone set up over here and if you line up behind that for your questions andmake sure your short question is a short question and gets said into the microphone. We want to keep the dialogue running. Books areavailable at the register if youve not yet bought one. We have copies of the first conspiracy and we also have copies of bradschildrens book which are also really fun and interesting. You might want to pick up a couple of those as well which is of course why we are here
Show lost history. And he is also the host of decoded. We although why you are here, with out further do lets welcome mr. Brad meltzer. [cheering] [applause] stomach or having fun now just you all know, cspan is here but you know what that means questioning that means all of us book nerds are being watched by her fellow book nerds. That that were altogether one place. [applause] we have as many viewers as espn right now. [laughter] that joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington d. C. Area was our home in a beautiful place for us where we had our children here, we had our lives here. We started writing here. Its especially important today, todays the day my dad died. And we mark today. And i know it seems like something sad part by loved my father specially loved biggins barnes noble because my father used to go into our local barnes noble, and he would always go yes im here for brad meltzers to but he is my favorite author. And they would
My childrens godfather is a former special forces group and he had a line he got from a commander somewhere in his career that said there are some peoplpeople just need killing. Some you will not be able to reason with or negotiate with and there is just evil in the world and that is kind of the approach he takes. He doesnt necessarily like it when he knows it needs to be done he went out and he does it. He runs through the bucs as a combination of multiple people that ive known in the world of government, diplomacy, part of government. Hhes actually named after somebody right here in dc who processes fisa warrants for the prophetic justice. So there is one over at doj, real life, and i hope it is a great name for a character. He is a collection of these people and then what i tell folks is that hes my alter ego. He gets to go and do the things my wife wont let me do. She let me go to afghanistan but she drew the line of chasing female operatives. So there is a line i cant cross. Host
I would love to see nine movies made. There seems to be a reluctance there that is misplaced. A lot of books that have nothing to do with islamic terrorism. In the code of conduct they all had to do with someone at the un. Hidden order was all about a series of murders taken place around boston. I normally dont say its about the fed when i publicize it because how could you make that sexy and be a thriller. Lets just one of several examples there was one muslim guy in it. It was one guy for all of that. Another theme intergovernmental intrigue. I talked to family members and things like this. Not close immediate family members. Francie tucker intrigue and i realize this is a same government that could not run the post office. All of the things that people want to put on dc makes for interesting fiction and i think we find it very easy to believe that there are forces behind the scene puppeteers that are controlling everything. I think that makes for interesting reading i grew up readin
Host ladies and gentlemen. We are all here to welcome the number one New York Times bestseller, across. Many genres including fiction, nonfiction, childrens, howtos, and graphic novels. He helped defined the loss 911 leg at ground zero. And also is the host and decoded. We all know why you are here. Lets welcome mr. Brad meltzer. [applause]. Brad we are here and just do you know, you call after your cameras out pretty cspan is here. Do you know what that means. All of this book nerves are watching are being watched by all of our Favorite Book nerves. And we are nerds. We have as many viewers as spn right now. [laughter]. That junk is not working in sports places. [laughter]. So i to virginia. Obviously this was our home. A beautiful place for us. I started writing here. Its especially important on today, todays the day my dad died. We market today. I know it seems like something sad but i love my father. I especially love being in his barnes noble. My father used to go into our local b