We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Gisinski, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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Today we're joined by number one New York Times best-selling author Brad Thor, whose latest

novel Rising Tiger, A Thriller, will be released on July 5th.

Brad, thanks so much for joining us.

Oh, Emily, it's a pleasure to be here.

Thanks for happening.

Of course.

Now, this is another book in the Scott Harvath series, and this one's set in India.

Can you just tell us a little bit about the book?

Maybe tease it for folks who are thinking about picking it up?

Yeah, so it's interesting, and it's fun because...

So I do thrillers.

I want you to take the book to the beach, to the lake, sit and have a great thrill ride.

But I call it a do-faction, where you don't know where the facts end and the fiction begins.

And in real life, two years ago, Chinese troops crept through the Himalayas into India,

into this disputed border area where no firearms are allowed.

And it was like something out of walking dead.

The Chinese soldiers had made their own homemade weapons, like iron rods, studded with spikes,

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