welcome richard north patterson. [applause] [applause] >> it's great to see you and to have read your book "the devil's light" doesn't refer to osama bin laden's flashlight, but to the light emitted from a nuclear weapon. and this is a very serious subject and people who know your career will not be surprised that you've tackled this subject. your other books, for example, "eclipse" about human rights, africa, and the geopolitics of oil, and "exile" before that was about the israelly-palestinian conflict. you were known for tackling serious issues and presenting them in a thriller format. this novel is thrilling, but you have said that you didn't write that per se, although it is to entertain people, it's also to inform them. you took two years to research and went to high general officials in the middle east. you said want to let them known about the threat. >> people worry about the iranians, they have a return address. if they were to start nuclear exchange, israel could annihilate them easily. the real threat is