have brought me to the spy trail so i thought we could bring that and make a movie and later don yaegerays to me let's do a book and i go i want to do this as a movie, and he goes let's do a book. we approached it like an investigative projects and bring something new to the story. we did it and they worked. then i got exposed to the barbary wars. found a little bit about it in college and after 9/11 when you heard about but islamic threat and islamic extremists, try to make heads tales of it, greg columnists tried to retrieve this information and i thought wait a second, what you talking about, islamists extremism, they had high reactivity but they were motivated and pushed a used as an excuse the koran and islam to attack us, we had no axe to grind. after ron my book picks up in 1784-1785 where the economy just got rid of british rule but we also lost british protection and we were out in the open seas buried in word that, do what americans always did, try to work out a way out of it, get the economy going and get it going, ingenuity, hard work and tremendous natural resources so to d