to welcome you to the 11th annual savanna book festival presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, that she and family, many thanks to jack and mary, the glorious venue, the trinity united methodist church. and members and individual donors who have made and continue to make saturday's events possible. 90% of revenues come from donors just like you. and and it would be very helpful today. following this presentation, robert latiff will sign festival purchased across the way. and as it empties so ushers can count available seats. please take a moment to turn off your cell phone. and we ask you to not use flash photography. during the question-and-answer portions. i will call on you and one of the ushers will bring a microphone to you. in the interest of time and to be fair to others, limit your self to one question and don't tell a story. robert latiff is with us courtesy of hugh and fran thomas. robert latiff is an adjunct faculty member of the university of notre dame, director of intelligence community programs at george mason university school of engineers, and therefore study

to welcome you to the 11th annual savanna book festival presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, that she and family, many thanks to jack and mary, the glorious venue, the trinity

david and nancy cintron, the sheehan family foundation and mark and pat sue in. many thanks to jack and mary, our sponsors for this glorious venue the trinity united methodist church. we would like to extend special thanksti also to our literati members and individual donors who have made and continue to make saturday's free festival events possible. in fact, 90% of the revenue for the savannah book festival comes from donors just like you. we are very excited to have a savannah book festival app available this year, please look in your program for information on downloading it to your phone. before we get started please let me go over couple housekeeping notes. immediately following this presentation, our speaker will be signing festival purchased copies of his book. if your intention is to stay for the next presentation in this cvenue, as soon as we are dismissed, please move forward so we can allow theea crowd weeding outside to come in and be seated as easily as possible. please take a moment to double check yourself phones are turned off or are at least sile

to welcome you to the 11th annual savannah book festival, presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, the family foundation, and mark and pat. many thanks to jack and mary romano, our sponsors for this glorious venue, the trinity united methodist church. we would like to extend special thanks to our literary members and individual donors who have made and continue to make saturday's free festival events possible. 90% of our venue, of our revenue comes from donors just like you. thank you. we are very excited to have a savannah book festival app for your phone available this year. it's very easy to get it from the app store and there are directions in your programs. please try to download it. it will help you today. before we get started i had a couple of housekeeping notes. immediately following this presentation, brian curtis will be signing festival purchase copies of his books right across the way. if you are planning to stay for the next author presentation, please move forward to seats in the front so that we can accurately count how many spaces are available for the next group.