i'm pleased to have barton biggs back at this table. welcome. >> thank you charlie. >> charlie: how many novels have you written. >> so zero, that's the first one. >> charlie: what made you think you could write a novel. >> anybody that ever did greative writing in college, your as operation is to write a novel. so i finally cranked one out. >> charlie: had been you thinking about this ever since you were at yale. >> no, no. this is strictly a current store of a modern day icarus that awe touches wings with wax and flies too close to the sun and falls head long back through. >> charlie: what brought this book. >> no one is going to feel sorry for fallen hedge fund managers or fallen banker after what's happened in the last five years. nevertheless all of us that lived through it knew and experienced a lot of people that were human tragedies and who did fly too close to the sun and were destroyed by the crash. >> charlie: but you also have said that you could tell stories in here and approach truth in here which you could not do if you w