Laurie at our table once again. The perfect gentleman villain. Wholeave a ready got a line in the manufacturing process. Villainess nor gentlemanly. But the character is an interesting combination. He has a sort of superficial affable charm. In fact, more than charm. He is positively adaptive and get the world he has created is built on something very dark and wicked. Jeff before we talk about re thisper, le car novel in particular. Hugh these are the holy texts of my childhood, particularly my team years. Teen years particularly the books about the cold war. And then 1990 came, the wall came down and i and others imagined that the spies are now out of work and possibly spied writers would also be redundant. I worried that he will he would have to hang up his typewriter ribbon. I happen to know he writes longhand. He is old school. Delight, notmy were he equaled found a subject that was equal to the high stakes of the cold war, he found something that if anything exceeded those stakes.