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IвЂ™d had theories and thoughts and policies on the JFK event for years and at one point had toyed with an idea of doing a book entitled вЂњSeven theories of JFK,вЂќ in which I showed off by conjuring seven possible conspiracies. How did you get the idea to put Bob Lee Swagger at the center of the JFK assassination? And how did you find a new way into the story fifty years later?ДЄ: The whiskey made me do it! Actually I think it was wine of some superior vintage contributed by great buddy and major domo of the empire, Gary Goldberg. Q: This seems like the perfect intersection of subject, author, and character. HeвЂ™s the right age and in my humble opinion still vital and virile (he happens to be my age!) IвЂ™d ideally cast Tommy Lee Jones whose face has collapsed into an Egyptian cataract of woe and melancholy. But for this book, we need someone older and wiser.

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Speaking as a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, who would you cast to play Swagger now, in The Third Bullet?ДЄ: Mark was wonderful and delivered a superb performance-there was no movie without Mark. Q: Point of Impact was made into the movie Shooter, starring Mark Wahlberg as a young Bob Lee Swagger. I had great fun with Hugh and believe me, there'd be no book at all without HughвЂ™s voice and my wife JeanвЂ™s coffee. It saved the book and it made The Third Bullet possible, because I was able to resurrect Hugh Meachum for a large role. Raymond Shreck, a court-martialed Green Beret whoвЂ™d become a freelance mayhem expert, and Hugh Meachum, an elderly (to me I was in my 40s at the time) Ivy League old boy and Intelligence sprite of mysterious connections. (I had obviously never heard of Richard Armitage!) Late in the process, I broke that character into two: Col. I had a researcher go back and document all the connections to JFK that remained in Point of Impact, and I used those as a foundation for The Third Bullet.ДЄ: The main problem I had with Point of Impact was the villain he was too broad, encompassing both Special Forces experience and Washington intelligence culture smarts. Twenty years passed, new ideas came to me about this and that, and suddenly I saw an opportunity to do the JFK book of my dreams. But I am sloppy and I missed stuff, lots of stuff. So I patched and changed, and abridged and diddled, and in the end separated Point of Impact from the JFK assassination. Thus I was halfway through a novel whose whole intellectual premise had just been destroyed. Halfway through I read Case Closed by Gerald Posner and I immediately ceased believing in conspiracy. When I started it everyone believed in conspiracy. Tell us a little about the relationship between the two books.ДЄ: Point of Impact was a very tough book to write-one problem was that it was inspired by and set to be about the JFK assassination. Q: The Third Bullet has some roots in the very first Bob Lee Swagger novel you wrote twenty years ago called Point of Impact.