mr. sharif is funny in the book. net one point he says but we are friends, right? and we are friendly. was there any concern on your part? he was pakistani prime minister and he does have power and he does have access to people who do things. was that a concern to you? >> no. it was not a concern to me. i deliberately changed the name of my driver in pakistan who works for somebody completely different and there's no way to find him. tammy is a character in the book who is the pakistani female journalists who wanted her name used and she knew about the stuff in there. she wanted to be associated with it. i had no fear he would retaliate. what is he going to do? once it is out it is out. there is no putting that back into the box and there hasn't been a lot of fallout personally for me at all. there have been people who suggest how could you write about that? that was private. my feeling is when you are a leader of a country we believe occupied a position like that, that behavior needs to be recognized and won a person puts themselves out to be a very conservative fundamentalist moslem

mr. sharif for his big stance on the ray davis buy case from earlier this year, which would mean i would have turned around the become in three weeks and working for the cia. >> the final meeting between kim and mr. sharif is quite funny and the re-telling in the book, and at one point he says, but, kim, we are friends, right? and kim says, well, we're friendly. so, was there any concern on your part that -- i mean, he was the pakistani prime minister and does have power, and does have access to people who can do things. >> yes. >> was that a concern to you? >> no. no. it was not a concern to me. i did -- i deliberately changed the name of my driver in pakistan, who now works for somebody completely different, and there's really no way to find him. tammy is a character in the book, pakistani female journalist there and she wanted her name used and she knew without the stuff -- about the stuff in there and wanted to be associated with it. i had no fear that he was going to retaliate against me. what is he going to do? once it's out, it's out, and you chant do anything about it. there's no