. >> to hear the rest of jarome corsi's website visit booktv.org and search for his name and title of his book, silent no more using search box at the top of the page. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening, welcome and thank you all very much for being here tonight. we are delighted to have someone who has been here -- here meaning this store but our original location a good number of times for approaching 30 years now and for him coming to seattle, this for us, feels like having a member of the family back, he does have literal family here in seattle so that part of seattle visits and she's an author too, tony will give her the word, but lawrence has often come, books have always had something interesting going on and he sort of in a singular way writes, has written about unique people and -- or sometimes extraordinary situations as well but often at the heart of the books unique people, try and make us seem exactly alike and something conformed and conventional and he's done this the last time he was here in seattle was just a couple of years ago with a man most known and quite