these things together that these are so universal you can smell it and tasted it please welcome howard blum. [applause] >> there is a moment when he thinks he found a storys life w where he feels he can wake up to make those characters come alive on stage so that great energizing moment this is a book i have to write and this is how i came to write the story of a glamorous debutante who became a secret operative and whose activities and missions but the story is barely a spy story that my threat -- spots began to coalesce as i was walking among the ancient stone with cambridge university with the infamous connection with those penetration agents or the moles. and so to be in search of another spy that i get ahead of myself and the beginningr tho i decided i wanted to writef. a women's story but none of those had a central femalene character perhaps this was the admission of was not up to the task so let was so battle scarred with a brother, ex-wife, i have paid my dues and alimony and tuition i figured i could handle a story of a beautiful and intelligent woman. back by a my books are a tru