A 30 Minute Break from Politics
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It's Election Day but we won't know the outcome for many hours, or even days. After we voted, there's not much more we can do. So today we're offering an alternative to politics, an interview with one of the most prolific spy novelists in history. He was Bill's producer at CNN and now Daniel Silva is the internationally acclaimed novelist whose main character Gabriel Allon, has captured the imagination of people all over the world. This episode is for you to relax and enjoy and get your mind off politics for just 1/2 an hour. Here is a link to Daniel Silva's page on Amazon which has all of his 27 best sellers. We'll be back on Friday with our Reporters Roundtable to figure out just what happened today.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good friends, and congratulations. We survived campaign 2024. Yes, it's election day, |
| 0:13.9 | and as long as we've already voted, there's nothing more to do today than wait until the votes are counted, |
| 0:19.9 | which is why we decided to take a |
| 0:21.8 | break from politics today and dive into the intriguing world of international spying. |
| 0:28.9 | Whoa. |
| 0:29.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:30.2 | You know, international spy thrallers are one of my favorite kind of books, and there's |
| 0:34.7 | nobody better or more popular in that field than today's guest, Daniel Silva. |
| 0:39.9 | Every one of his books has topped the New York Times bestseller list. This year, Silva published |
| 0:46.5 | his 27th spy novel, the last 24 of which feature the colorful, warm-hearted but cold-blooded intelligence chief, |
| 0:56.7 | Gabriel Alon, who tracks down evildoers from Paris to Jerusalem, from Zurich to Cornwall. |
| 1:04.8 | Having read all 27 of his books, I can tell you that every one of them is brilliantly written, |
| 1:10.8 | filled with excitement and |
| 1:11.9 | lots of unexpected twists and turns, true page turners. I recently had a chance to interview |
| 1:18.4 | Daniel Silva before a crowd of faithful readers at Washington's Hill Center and ask him about |
| 1:24.6 | his creative process and what overall messages he's aiming to convey to his readers through his books. |
| 1:31.5 | So it's a special treat today. I invite all of you to forget about politics for a little while. |
| 1:37.9 | Just sit back and enjoy our conversation. |
| 1:41.8 | So when I got to CNN, I went into my producer's office one day. I knew he'd been |
| 1:48.0 | working on a book. I knew the book had come out. And it was this one. Number one, the unlucky spy. |
| 1:56.5 | Unlikely. Unlikely. And probably lucky author. Unlucky author. |
| 2:01.6 | But anyhow, Daniel was at his desk on his computer and it was just obsessive looking. |
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