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Learn from the prose<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Daniel Silva. Topping the best seller list more often than the Bible.<\/p>\n

No. 1 on the list \u2014 his 26th book in the Gabriel Allon series, \u201cRansom\u201d \u2014 is about a Middle East agent art specialist ex spy who always nails the fink and whose wife seems never to grow older or less gorgeous, unlike the rest of us.<\/p>\n

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Silva: \u201cI once let my lead character retire from his Israeli secret service connection, but inspiration came from that Copenhagen Airport drone incident last year. European leaders, scheduled days later for a meeting, grabbed drones, signal jammers, whatever signal they could to protect them. That was this book\u2019s inspiration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI write in my head at night. I love it. I work at my job, stay at it all day long. Only I find the work longer and harder now than when I was younger. The thought is a limited amount of time\u2019s left.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cindy: Ever effed up a fact?<\/p>\n

\u201cI preserve spontaneity. No detailed outline. Once, I mixed up an Escalade with another car, but fact-checkers always check. I write longhand. Pencil. Yellow legal pads. As I finish one book, the next takes shape in my head. I have little pieces of paper everywhere. I finally allowed my central character to retire from his longtime Israeli secret service position. But readers and my publisher loved him, so now he\u2019s just a little changed to an art restorer who once was a spy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Novel method<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cEarly 30s I wrote my first book. In secret. No contract. A World War II thriller. If it flopped, I wanted to fail entirely in private. I was then a CNN producer who\u2019d been a foreign correspondent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Art of writing<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Incorporating anything about today\u2019s Middle East conflict?<\/p>\n

\u201cNo interest in writing about it. I don\u2019t think many have interest in reading about it. But I\u2019ll give you a clue about my next. I\u2019m into studying Botticelli. Florence\u2019s Uffizi Gallery has his largest collection. Starts with four friends from Cambridge on holiday in Ibiza, and only three come home. And that\u2019s all I\u2019ll say.<\/p>\n

\u201cExcept one person recently asked me how many researchers I have on staff. I said, \u2018Staff<\/em>? You\u2019re looking at the staff.\u2019\u200a\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fear Expressed<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This is something I was sent. Arrived unrequested and is something from American Express.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s an ad. Maybe a warning. I just think you should be aware.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, everyone is getting hit with some scam. Scammers are becoming sophisticated. Pretending to be trusted. Authorities, including a government entity, your American Express, a friend. Creating urgency, they try to force snap judgments in certain situations \u2014 such as a government or law enforcement official reaching out to demand immediate payment for a debt or to collect personal information.<\/p>\n

Like: A person claims to have tickets for a high-demand event, say a sold-out game, for a discount. If it sounds too good to be true, the scammer is trying to access your credit card account details or steal your funds.<\/p>\n

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Someone requests an unusual form of payment such as gift cards or crypto. Proper entities will not ask you to pay with gift cards or crypto to resolve an issue with your account.\u00a0<\/p>\n

News heard around Manhattan: \u201cI want my wife to know we\u2019re in great luck. Now we don\u2019t have to move to an apartment that will end up costing us more money. The landlord just raised our rent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Montana boy, 14, uses rodeo lasso to rescue man drowning in Yellowstone River: \u2018Go get him\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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