The Terminal List A Thriller (1)

So it's based on a New York Times bestselling novel by an author named Jack Carr.

So if my character gets ambushed somewhere, I can remember what it was like in Baghdad 2006 to actually get ambushed and then I can take those and apply them right here to this fictional narrative so it's a fictional story, James Reese in the first book gets ambushed on the streets of LA by this assassin guy but I can remember what it felt like to be on the receiving end and then those feelings and emotions go directly on the page so I don't have to find a sniper from, let's say, Ramadi at the height of the war and interview him and then have those answers get filtered through movies I've seen, other interviews I've done, documentaries, other books, whatever it might be and then fictionalize it and put it on the page. It goes all heart and soul right in here so it was very personal, much more personal and it's remained that way even though this is the seventh book, it's still just as powerful when I'm writing it and I'm feeling it as it was for that first one.

If The Terminal List is your first book, that's crazy. How many rewrites were there or edits?

Very few. The questions that I got back are still the ones that I get, content edits today which are like hey explain this for somebody who wasn't in the military or now hey explain this for someone who hasn't read the previous six books. Put another sentence in there too just to explain who this person is and why they're here.

I thought there was gonna be a lot because you're sending this to Simon & Schuster, it's a publisher of all these books that I've read growing up and I thought oh they know what they're doing back there so they're gonna make all these changes.

So those are the kind of edits that I get but no real big content edits at all and I didn't know it because I'm stepping into this for the first time back then and I didn't know if it was gonna be like hey you know what, you should lay off on the violence or do you have to have so many guns in there or do you have to describe them? Nothing, there's zero.

One of the biggest shows last year on television, one of the biggest stream shows on television was The Terminalist based on Jack Carr's book.

After serving as a team leader, platoon commander, and task unit commander, he transitioned from the battlefield to books and how, becoming a New York Times bestselling author, his debut novel, The Terminal List, became a massive hit and was adapted into the wildly successful Amazon Prime video series starring actor Chris Pratt.

He mentioned his earlier work, the terminal list and the dark wolf set.

Jack is also the number one New York Times bestselling author of eight books, and his debut novel, The Terminal List, was adapted into the number one Amazon Prime video series starring Chris Pratt.

The Terminalist series has been a huge success stretching back for years now, many books.

James Reese, obviously he's the central character once again in this one, played memorably by Chris Pratt, one of my favorite actors out there in Hollywood, in the Amazon version of The Terminalist Season 1.

Indications are that it was quite successful which is why we have two shows in the works right now. One, a prequel origin story that we're filming in Budapest actually.

We've got a lot to talk about here on this Friday, including some great guests who will be joining us later on in the program. Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL, bestselling author, the Terminal List series.

Also, our buddy Jesse Kelly is going to be with us in the final hour as well. And it's going to be fun. Get your popcorn as well as Jack Carr, who is one of the best selling authors in America right now. A friend of ours, Buck, you've known him for a while, but his books just keep selling like crazy. He's got a new book out. He's going to be with us at two thirty Eastern.

A terminalist series has been a huge, uh, you know, huge success stretching back for years now, many books.

James Reese, obviously he's the central character once again, and this one played memorably by, uh, Chris Pratt.

One of my favorite actors out there in Hollywood in the Amazon version of the terminalist season one.

Uh, can you give us any, is there any talk, any scuttlebutt about a terminalist season two at some point or where do things stand?

Yeah. So we're, you know, Amazon will never share the exact numbers with us. And that data, all those streaming services hold that data close hold.

Jack, you obviously have to rip many of your stories from the headlines, the terminal list, bestselling book series.

But this pager operation and follow on attack through another communication device, absolutely remarkable, will be studied for decades, probably centuries to come and really highlights just the reach of Israeli intelligence services.

For the past eight years, that has certainly come to be true if you'd written some of this stuff back before 2016, people would have put you in the science fiction category, wouldn't have believed it.

So I'm reading Jack Carr's books, which are actually really entertaining. The terminal list, you know, we hung out with Jack in Park City.