In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Matt Scott discusses his political thriller series, Surviving the Lion’s Den. All three books in this trilogy--Surviving the Lion’s Den, The Iranian Deception, and The Ayatollah Takedown--are available now. The series opens with a race against time. Can the main characters make it safely out of Iran in the midst of a political coup to overthrow Iran’s Supreme Leader—a coup orchestrated by the U.S. government? Inspired by Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, Matt set about to write a series that would explore what it looks like to be inside Iran during a regime change. The books feature CIA operatives, Iranian insiders, international intrigue, geopolitical conflicts, and plenty of fast-paced tension. In this episode, I’ll chat with Matt about his writing journey, how he ended up with almost an entirely different book between his first and second rounds of edits, and how a conversation with best-selling author David Baldacci led to this series being written.
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