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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor and I welcome the author, the fiction author,

the novelist, J.H. Galanter. J.H. is Josh and I congratulate him on the publication of

his first work of fiction, his first book. It is entitled Hold Fast. To get right to

the point, this is the Napoleonic era. This is the Royal Navy versus Boné, Bonaparte.

This is everything we enjoy about Patrick O'Brien's series of books about Aubrey and Matturin.

Reimagined by a young man in American who has another kind of approach to the Napoleonic

era, his hero is a Royal Marine who is also an intelligence agent. The editor of Patrick

O'Brien's books over many years, Star Lawrence of Norton is now the editor of Josh's first

book. Galeranter, J.H. Galeranter's Hold Fast. That recommendation to everybody who knows

Patrick O'Brien, but for those of you who don't, Josh, congratulations on very good evening

to you. Introduce us to Thomas Gray, the officer in the Royal Marines, whom who has a

double life. Good evening to you. Thanks. Thanks for having me on. Well, Gray is the James Bond

of the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars. I've been searching for a good elevator description

of him, but I guess that's it. We're right at the transition from the Wars, the French

Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon has taken over, but he hasn't made himself

formally emperor yet. The English are trying to protect themselves from the growing

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