Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.

I'm joined now by a very special guest, a New York Times bestselling author, host of the excellent podcast dedicated with Doug Brunt, and the author of the upcoming book, The Lost Empire of

Emmanuel Nobel, Romanov's Revolutionaries and the Forgotten Titan who fueled the world.

Doug happens to be my husband as well, so that worked out well.

Hi, honey.

Hi, it's great to be here.

Congrats. So here is the galley copy of the new book, which is just so cool looking.

It's beautiful, the Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel.

And it looks kind of similar, similar style to your last big New York Times bestseller,

The Mysterious Case of Rudolph Diesel.

Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel will not be available until May, but they can pre-order it today, have it in time for Father's Day. Yeah. And tell us what the Lost Empire of Emmanuel Nobel is about. What is, by getting the galley's, is such a nice moment. We open the box, you know, as a family around the dining room table, and you pull them out and you see it.

You hold it in your hands after years of working on it. It is a companion book to the diesel book. Emmanuel Nobel has an appearance in the Rudolph Diesel story. But you don't have to have read Diesel in order to read this book. It can be out of sequence. And in fact, I haven't said this really.

The only people who know this next piece are you and my editor and a few people in archives around the world.

But I'm working said this really. The only people who know this next piece are you and my editor and a few people in archives around the world, but I'm working on a third, which will be,

we'll complete a trilogy of these three turn of the century characters. Emmanuel Nobel essentially

established the Russian oil industry along the Caspian Sea in southern Russia. So by 1900, he and his family had built an oil business larger than standard oil.

And in World War I, he controlled more oil than anyone else on the planet.

So it was this huge prize sitting in southern Russia that Germany, the Brits, the Bolsheviks,

you know, the communists, Japan, everybody wanted to get to the Nobel oil because they had essentially

developed a whole oil infrastructure that was superior to anything else in the world.

Superior to Rockefeller, that's crazy.

Even to Rockefeller.

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