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Hello and welcome to Full Disclosure, a podcast project designed chiefly to let me spend more time than is normally available in a radio interview with people that I have always wanted to meet or spend more time with than is ordinarily available in a

radio studio. And this week's guest is a particularly special treat for me because I think

I've read every word that Harlan Coben has ever published. So Harlan, thank you so much for joining us.

Wow, what an honor, James. Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind words.

And I'm in this really weird situation,

thinking of people listening to this or watching this, and how some of them like me will be

Uber fans. Some of them will be possibly followers of the podcast and not aware of who you are,

but trusting my judgment that you are somebody that they're going to enjoy meeting. And then,

of course, sort of right down the middle, the knowledge that so much of your work

is twisty and very plot-driven that I don't want to talk about any of the novels that people

haven't read in case I give away huge elements of the story.

So we're just going to kind of suck it and see and see where this leads us.

Let's do it. Dive right in. Do you like being interviewed? Do you like talking about yourself or your

work or both or neither? Well, you know, the modest answer is no, of course not. You know,

because I'm a writer, I spend pretty much all my time in a

room like this. So when the book comes out, I do, you know, I'll have three or four or five

days of this and I'll actually enjoy it. And then I want to, you know, I'll really want to kill

myself if I have to do one more day of it. It's a, It's like a lot of things in life where you're

anxious to get there and then when you're there, you're ready to stop. So after today, this,

you know, maybe tomorrow I'll be okay with it and then it'll be, oh my God, I got to talk about

myself again. So it's a saturation point. It's a love-hete relationship. I understand that.

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