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Cry Havoc · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  Speaker 1: Writing this book that I thought was going to be
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  Speaker 1: the most efficiently written book yet, meaning I thought I
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  Speaker 1: had a good understanding of Vietnam, lessons learned from Vietnam,
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  Speaker 1: the sixties, overall the feel of that period of time.
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  Speaker 1: And then I dove into the research for this book,
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  Speaker 1: Cry Havoc that I'm on book tour four right now,
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  Speaker 1: and I realized I'd really just scratched the surface because
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  Speaker 1: every sentence in this book has to be written through
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  Speaker 1: the lens of nineteen sixty eight. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: have fifty plus years of hindsight applied to any character's
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  Speaker 1: perspective on an event, a situation, or part of a conversation.
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  Speaker 1: So that took a lot longer than research for a
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  Speaker 1: contemporary thriller. And that's why we're here in October point.
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  Speaker 1: Being the balance thing is something I am still working on.
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  Speaker 1: Every morning I get up and it's like being shot
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  Speaker 1: out of a cannon with kids, wife, dog and all
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  Speaker 1: the rest of it. So it's just mass chaos. But
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  Speaker 1: I feel extremely fortunate to be working on multiple Hollywood projects,
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  Speaker 1: multiple books, and to have Cry Havoc out there, which
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  Speaker 1: I think is my best book yet.