Guns In Novels; Security Lessons From Nancy Guthrie Case; Great Pocket Pistol

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🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In This Hour:

-- Best selling author Mark Greaney, who created the Gray Man series, talks about how he gets guns right in his novels and where he does his research.

-- The Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case offers lessons for home security.

-- The Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0 is a great pocket pistol

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0:00.0	The Ruger Light Rack Security 380 is easy to shoot and easy to rack.
0:05.7	Small enough to carry concealed or in a purse, big enough to absorb recoil.
0:11.2	Learn more at Ruger.com.
0:15.2	All right, back with you.
0:16.6	You want to call us 866 Talk Gun or Tom Talk Gun.
0:19.3	I'm Tom Gresham, your host.
0:20.7	Does anything drive you crazier than be reading a really good novel? You want to call us 866 Talk Gun or Tom Talk Gun. I'm Tom Gresham, your host.
0:27.2	Does anything drive you crazier than be reading a really good novel and they've got the gun action going on? And then the author screws it all up.
0:30.1	And, you know, you've got the automatic revolver.
0:32.9	There actually is such a thing, but probably not in this case.
0:37.1	Or the safety on the Glock or the
0:39.4	whatever it is. And you're going, oh, man, really? Yeah, and then you find an author who gets it
0:44.9	right, and you're going, man, that is great. Well, there's a pleasure right now to welcome Mark
0:50.3	Randy on. He is the author of the Greyman series, and Mark, you also, of course,
0:55.0	have seven novels in the Jack Ryan series, three of them done with Tom Clancy, and not to
1:00.7	mention a movie on Netflix. Welcome. Hey, thanks for having me, Tom. You bet. Okay, so is it true
1:08.7	that you took 15 years to write your first novel?
1:13.2	Yes, it is. And that doesn't mean that was perfecting it. That was being slow and lazy more than anything else.
1:20.5	It was picking away, learning all the things not to do. And yeah, my second book I wrote in seven months.
1:26.3	So that first 15-year books, that makes me sound like a really hard worker. But it was, unfortunately, it was the opposite. It was, kept picking it up and putting it down and going, you know, like, I'll try again. And, yeah, it took me 20 years from when I first had the idea of being an author to finally getting published. Well, I'm glad you did. You have more than 20 novels out. I'm sitting there. Literally, I've got
1:48.2	the Grey Man and Gun Metal Gray sitting right in front of me here because they're on my list to pick up and read again.
1:54.7	Because you do books that are worth reading over and over.
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