She is going to be racing out of there. I can start chapter 1. 20 years i have been doing it. But to me i said dont do it, dont start the book until you have at all. It will make a better book. In 1898. And john wilkie was put in charge of the secret service. Harry houdini loves doing magic tricks. The magician was in control of the secret service. And dont just want to force facts in our vomiting up information. Couldnt figure it out. And then i look at houdinis life. Harry houdinis secret service, fantastic idea, so many tricks, he was going to virginia and that was the week before. And locks ran the jail doors and harry says lock me up in your jail and i will get out. He always had the inside information. The secret service gave the answers and i need to get secret service. I want my own too and Harry Houdini was upset with death. Never got over the death of his mother, never. When i look at Harry Houdinis life the escape artist shows it looks like hes going to die and he gets out,
[inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen, we are here to welcome the 11th time number one New York Times bestseller across many genres including fiction, nonfiction, childrens, how to use, graphic novels. Erie. So you know all of you have cameras out, cspan is here and you know what that means. All of us book nerds are being watched by all our Favorite Book nerds. We arefinally altogether in oneplace. We have as many viewers as svn right now. That joke does not work in sports places. I love coming to virginia, obviously the washington dc area was our home and a beautiful place for us where we had our children here. We had our lives here. I started writing here and its especially important today. Today is the day my dad died and we marked the day and i know it seems like something sad but i love my father and i especially love being in this barnes and noble because my father used to go into barnes and noble and say yes, im here for brad meltzer book, hes my favorite author and the
Historical accounts of Benedict Arnold and artifacts associated with the revolutionary war general in his new fictional thriller. [applause] so heres where were going to have some fun tonight, right . Weve got kids in the front row, and that means chaos, people. Right . [laughter] two, weve got cspan here, lets hear it for cspan, right . Right . We love cspan. [applause] there is no better nerdier crowd than the washington, d. C. Metro area. [laughter] in fact, all the viewers of cspan, i think, are in this room right now. We love you. We watch on a regular basis, i mean, the regular viewers, of course. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple other things were going to do nowhere else, and were going to do here. First, im going to tell you about difference between history and destiny. And we all know what history is, right . Its what happened, but destiny is what must happen. And this is true. I cant believe this is happening, but my father, may he rest in peace, was struck b
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