and my character brooke chandler is one of them. there's a feeling generally that one of the after effects of 9/11 was an infusion of talent into the agency, which perhaps otherwise wouldn't have been the. eventually it all came together for me, the worry about nuclear terrorism, 9/11, al qaeda. my interest in intelligence world and hence "the devil's light" spent a reminder you listen to the commonwealth club of california greater program. we are talking with best selling author richard north patterson about his book, "the devil's light." let's take a question from the audience, but before we do that, i just want to say in your book, "the devil's light," the characters say a lot of things that i don't think people, politicians and others could ordinarily say for public consumption. one of them, for example, you have people, said a intelligence saying al qaeda, they are a good organization, tactic wise. they are full of brilliant people. one of them, i forget the name, one of them calls osama bin laden a genius. one question from th