Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 340 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is James Patterson.

He's the author of over 200 books which have sold over 375 million copies,

and he holds the Guinness World Record for the most number one New York Times bestsellers.

His Alex Cross series of detective thrillers have been adapted into feature films such as Kiss the Girls,

and to Long came a Spider, both starring Morgan Freeman.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his new children's book Max Einstein

The Genius Experiment, which he wrote with Chris Grabenstein,

and his novel The President is missing,

which he wrote with former President Bill Clinton.

And now here's her interview with James Patterson.

All right, so we're here with James Patterson. Welcome to the show.

Well, thanks. I'm glad to be here.

Okay, and so your new book is called Max Einstein, The Genius Experiment.

So how did this book come about?

Well, the Einstein Estate wanted to hook up with a publisher and a writer who would make sure the kids

around the world were familiar with with Albert Einstein and his and his

science and I guess because they're Einstein people

they were smart and they insisted that it had to be entertaining or kids

basically wouldn't wouldn't read it or if they read one book they wouldn't read the follow-ups in the series.

So they came to Disney and Scholastic and then I have a small imprint at Little Brown and they asked us all to talk you know to them about what would we do if we got it and all they gave us was a name Max Einstein and when we got together I said, well, you know, I know this isn't a big deal everywhere, but it is in a lot of places around the world and even in the United States.

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