your feedback is critical in helping us continue to improve this event and surveys are available here at the information desk and on our web site. anyone who commits a survey will be entered into a random drawing for a nook. we welcome c-span booktv and viewers across the country. if there s time during the presentation for audience questions please make sure to use the microphone in front so everyone here in the television audience will hear you. phil trupp will be signing books immediately after this presentation. phil trupp s books are on sale in the bonds and noble tend. phil trupp is an author, journalist and adventurer with a career that has spanned three decades. phil trupp has been a daily news reporter, em major magazine feature writer and author and editor of more than a dozen books. he is working on three novels as well as feature-length films with a spy thriller theme. phil trupp was associated with project mercury in the early days of nasa and is an official noah