. >> guest: not enough but the thing about reading fiction that is really interesting and i know brad thor has a book coming out soon, i think it's called or an agent and reading things, a clancy book or something like that is that you get way over there in letting the mind just go and thinking about the possibilities and every once in a while people will talk about washington and they'll go this stuff coming out there now you, you couldn't make this up and so i think that sometimes reading fiction or reading some of these comedies, these parities, it can be good because it allows your mind to just sink. >> host: speaking of washington, do you read books about washington, about the congress, kind of contemporary narratives? >> guest: not a lot. i just, i don't know. i guess i just don't have the appetite for that. maybe i do so much periodical reading, i spend hours every day reading so maybe i'm too immersed in it to appreciate that. >> host: if you were to recommend a book for your district to read for example, maybe a district book, where would you go? >> guest: i think reading the cons

brad thor is a "new york times" best selling author.s is so dark and so disturbing, and feels like it's escalating, mark. what are your thoughts? >> i think it is, megyn, and i think it fuels its own fire that really is kind of under the radar. it's kind of under journalism and the written word and what is really -- what people are really willing to speak out about. there's an underground that we're going to have to deal with. and, you know, this shooting and all these shootings, we don't understand how they occurred. there's no flags like this suspect. there really wasn't any flags, yet the people that are the closest to him, they see the rage, and they see the anger and the escalation of it, and they know something's going to happen, yet they fail to come forward. >> well, speaking of the people who know the shooters, right, because this guy wasn't on the radar for anything like we saw in orlando. you know, the guy had been investigated by the fbi. not this guy. this is what the gunman's sister put up just a couple of days ago, the ni

brad thor lives in nashville, steven menceville who is from nashville and contemporary christian world. you have michael w. smith, who is there. amy grant, sid buchanan, also a study group in church with us. >> host: there's a big publisher, thomas nelson? >> guest: thomas nelson is there and the southwestern company is also there. they're two of nashville's oldest companies, and people many times will say, how did printers alley come about? think they at a bunch of honky-tonks. it was actually the back door of the alley off the printing companies, and thomas nelson beg one of those who started with bibles and expanded and moved to educational books, and i worked with southwestern company, working my way through college. paid for my tuition. >> host: marsha blackburn, have you ever spoken or been involved with the southern festival of book? >> guest: i have not. i have gone a couple of times because i just love it. authors and -- things that bring authors together as those are fabulous. alice randall, who has written a couple of best sellers, is a very dear friend and she has been very

>> yes we do, we have plenty of authors, john beauchamp was in nashville, brad thor lives in nashville we have stephen mansfield, who is in nashville, and contemporary christian world who got michael smith who is there, amy grant, buchanan who is also in my apple study group in church with us. >> thomas nelson down in nashville now. >> he is there in southwestern is also there, they are to have nashville's' oldest companies and people many times will say how did winters alley come about ? they think is a bunch of honky-tonk's they actually don't know is the back door the alley off the back door of all the printing companies and thomas nelson being one of those in southwestern who started with the bible and expanded and moved to educational books and i worked with the southwestern company working my way through college, is how i pay for my tuition. >> have you ever spoken or been involved with the southern festival of books? >> i have not. i have gone a couple of times because i love it, authors around ten things that bring authors together and those are fabulous, alice randall who has

with general mike flynn, author brad thor, and more than a dozen others. we begin the evening with benjamin hall reporting from london. benjamin. >> reporter: yeah. good evening, megyn. another terror attack has hit the very heart of europe, and this is the heart. this is one of the most famous roads in europe. it's along the most beautiful stretch, most famous hotels, and it was just after 11:00 p.m. when the crowds were watching the celebration of liberty, fraternity, equality, their independence. this truck came out of nowhere, mowing down people. the truck traveled about 1.2 miles before it was stopped, zigzagging left and right. there are indications that the driver was also firing from the window as he did so. we know that may well be the case as they found guns and explosives in the truck later on. he was eventually stopped when he was killed by police through the wind death toll now continues to rise as they start piecing together what exactly happened. 77 already with 15 critical. sohis number pushing right up to the 100 mark. remember 130 were ki

next up on the conservative book club list is brad thors international spy thriller, "foreign agent" and also" the intimidation game." she argues the political left is trying to limit freedom of speech. you can see her on book tv's "after words" program in the coming weeks. a look at the best selling books continues with, "if you can keep it" in which eric metaxis weighs in on the intentions of the founding fathers when they wrote the constitution, and the state of liberty in america today. and in "killing kennedy"" really looks at the assassination of president john f. kennedy. next, former bill clinton campaign adviser, dick morris, lays out a strategy in ""carmageddon"" he thinks willied donald trump to victory in the 2016 election, and republican strategic peter sweitzer criticizes the financial dealings of the clinton in "clinton cash." rounding out the list, cores terrorism righter looks at how the fight against extremism can be won in "defeating jihads." a look at current best sellers. many of the authors have appeared or will appear on