What’s crazy is that this is one of the most complicated books that I’ve ever written. It’s like I’m trying to carry the reader over the suspension of disbelief. And It would just be a shadow of stuff that’s already been recycled. If I don’t do it myself I would be combining all of the usual stuff people have already seen in pop culture in books and movies and TV. But the other thing is it lets me pick the right telling details so that the reader really feels the action. It keeps me acquainted with the fact that life’s an adventure. Why do I do it? Firstly, because it’s fun. I’ve done all sorts of stuff, I’ve gone undercover with mind-control cults, I’ve been on demolition ranges with SEALs and blown up cars, gone swimming with sharks in Galapagos. The research is to have the ring of verisimilitude. I had to figure out how to scale this in a way that felt plausible. The first two months were building this wall of possibility in front of me and then I was staring at it like a figure from Game Of Thrones with this giant wall looming over me.
I got info on the entrances to the White House, what the procedures are when the President travels.
I got the blueprints to Cadillac One, or Beast One, that’s the Presidential limousine, where the doors are as heavy as a Boeing 747.
I spent the first two months doing tons of research about all the security procedures.
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