The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – The Glass Man: A Novel (The Asker Series) by Anders de la Motte

Episode Date: September 2, 2025

The Glass Man: A Novel (The Asker Series) by Anders de la Motte https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1668030861 The Leo Asker series, which will have you “hooked from the very first page” (Kyle Mills, #1 New York Timesbestselling author), continues with this second installment following wayward detective Leonore Asker on a chilling new murder case. Detective Leonore Asker has just settled in as head of the Department of Lost Souls, a unit for odd cases, when her father contacts her after years of silence. A body has been found on his farm and, as the main suspect, he is desperate for Leo’s help. But is her father as innocent as he claims or is he trying to reel Leo into his grip once again? Meanwhile, Martin Hill moves to a secluded estate to write a biography about the business leader Gunnar Irving, intrigued by the fact that the legendary property contains an abandoned astronomical observatory. Soon, Hill discovers that the area has more stories to offer…about mysterious lights and mutilated bodies. While Asker and Hill try to find answers, the Glass Man rises from the depths of darkness from which no one ever returns. Nobody but him.

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I'm trying to get further down the year. What am I doing here? August 26, 2025. We have Anders Day Lamont on the show with us today. And we're going to get into it. And his series, this is book two of two of the Asker series. And we'll find out what that means, what it's about. and what he's up to in this new series that he's working on and all that good stuff.

Anders is a former police officer. He made his debut in 2010 with the award-winning thriller Game and has become one of Sweden's most beloved and popular crime writers. He is the author of several acclaimed best-selling crime fiction series, among them, the suspenseful skein quartet. Did I, did I pronounce that right? Yeah, it's pretty close, yeah. Okay. I'm still working on my Sviedin, my Sveed and Vigid and Veed and Very difficult language, yeah. Isn't that? I got all my Swedish speaking terms from the Swedish chef from the Muppets.

From the Muppet Show, yeah. The Muppet Show, that's how I know. Do you really sound like that? Yeah, maybe we do. You guys all look like that, don't you got the beard? Yeah, of course. Yeah. Published in 2022, the Mountain King is the first best-selling installment in his new Leo Asker series. welcome the show anders how are you thank you so much i'm good thank you how are you

i'm doing well i got you on the show and we're going to talk about your signing book give us your dot coms where can we find people uh that can hunt you down and stock you on the internet and buy your book up which dot coms uh any websites you want them to check you on you can get the book on on a really on any on any on any of the uh i guess uh bookstores in in the U.S. and on the online bookstores as well. So, but, you know, Amazon.com is probably the easiest one. And it's gotten some great reviews. In fact, we've got a couple, Will Dean has been on the show multiple times.

He gave you a great, the twisty, spine tingling mystery that unfolds in creepy, sinister, laced with a touch of dark Scandinavian folklore. That sounds like the girls I mean on Tinder these days. And Andrew Gross, I believe, has been on the show, too, from the fifth column. So you got some really good, I see you got some really good there, endorsements, referral. Yeah, I was really happy about those from two great authors as well. So very proud. I sort of framed them and hung on my wall and in my studio.

We like Willie's been on the show, but someone really hurt him. No, I'm just kidding. He writes some interesting mystery stuff, horror stuff, sort of suspense, I think. So the class. I think all that the crime thriller writers are a bit, you know, you should see our Google history. God forbid something would ever happen to my wife, but if the police looks at my Google history, I'm gone, right? Yeah, you better

make sure nothing happens to the wife there because yeah, yeah, out of kill. You know, actually that probably would be a good novel, a guy who is a writer like yourself who writes, you know, suspense, mystery and stuff, thrillers, and then his wife does get killed

for real in the book by some, by a person who is framing him by using his methods of killing. His own words and his own method. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's see who writes it first.

So give us a 30,000 over you. What's in this new book, please? So the Asker series is really based on some experiences I had as a young policeman. So it's based on a group of police officers that are, you know, they don't work with other people anymore. So they're sent down to the basement to do really nothing, just because, you know, If you work for the government, and especially if we work for the government in the Nordics, it's very difficult to fire you. So there are a bunch of low performers, right, doing really nothing.

And then Leo Asker is a high performer to work in really serious cases. And through some political maneuvering, all of a sudden she's demoted. And she's now the commanding officer of the Department of Lost Soul, as they're called, with the police irony of it. So that's sort of the whole base premise for the whole Aska series, because they get a lot of nonsense cases. If you work with the police, you know that people call the police about anything. I personally recalls where they say, you know, the Swedish king is spying on me through the air ducts or stuff like that. Well, everyone knows that, though. Of course. That's what he does.

That's over here, too. Yeah. And then you have to write all this down and you have to put it in the system somewhere. And somewhere, some poor person has to read through all this nonsense and decide what to do with it. Because it's a citizen communicating with the government, you really have to, you know, take this down in some way. And among all these things, there might be some things that are actually real or actually relevant to some kind of case. And that's sort of the whole base premise of the series. So in the first book, it was a kidnapping case where they got some, the kidnapper actually, he worked with a, he went to a big train model and he put his own little figurines in the train model, which is a very strange thing to do.

And the people who ran the train model, they call the police and said, there's someone meddling with our train model, which sounds like not very, you know, police case, right? But it turned out to be connected. And in the Glassman, it's a slightly different start. It starts with Asker being contacted by her a strange father. And he sort of just tells her that I'm going to be a frame for a murder. I didn't commit. You have to help me. And then he hangs up. So that's sort of a start. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. That happens to me like on Fridays. Actually, we get a lot of scam calls here on the show, too. We get those people. And we get the text, too. They're like, hey, do I know you anymore or something?

You know, weird stuff. It's all spam bait or scam bait. So now this is part two of two in your Askier series. What was the original first book called? The first book is called the Mountain King. So there's a little bit of flirt with the Nordic folklore, you know, about the Mountain King, who is the head of the trolls inside the mountain. And with the Mountain Kings also comes the concept of it.

It's called changelings, I think, in English, you know, where the trolls, they kidnap a human baby and they replace it with a troll. And the kidnapper in the Mountain King, he sort of sees himself as that. He sees himself as a change. He's not really human, right? So I had a chance to do a little bit of flirting with Nordic mythology, which I like. And in the Glassman, there's a little bit of Frankenstein in there, I think. There's the estate, you know, the creepy estate far out in the countryside where no one can hear you.

No, hear you scream. your screen. And that's what I'm trying to do with Asker series, because since the framework is so loosely based, you can have really any case. You don't have to have, like, a typical police thriller starts. It starts with a dead body, right? Chapter 1, dead body, found in the lake by a dog. Yeah, yeah, I know.

Yeah, surprising, right? And you have to follow that pattern, which a lot of people like. But with Asker series, since it's not real cases or it might be real cases, I can start a little bit whatever I like, and I can twist them a little bit, and I can do this little interesting first with, for the Glassman, it's a little bit of horror. And the first one is, it's more of a little nod to Silas of the Lambs. So it's all these, I love the X-Files, you know, who doesn't love the X-Files? So there's a little, there's no supernatural things in it, but there's a little twist of the X-Files as well. So it makes it a lot of fun to write. Tell us about your

protagonist in the book. Who's, who's this gentleman who's, I guess, going through the series? It's going to be Leo, Leonor, ask her. So she's a female detective. She's very ambitious. And she's really good at her job, but not all that great with people, right? So she actually rubs a couple of people the wrong way, and she ends up, rather than running the best, most affected departments, she's now managing the worst department.

The actual name is the resource department, which is, you know, it's just a joke because there are no resources whatsoever. And they're based on level. minus one in the police, you know, in the whole building. So if you press the elevator, the elevators are really going to ask you, like, minus one? Are you really sure you want to go to minus one? And I found that interesting because when you're writing, you want to work with dynamics, right? So here I have a high performer and I have a bunch of low performers. And the whole friction between these two is a great way of driving the story. It's a great

engine. And then I try to balance it out with a second main protagonist, who's Martin Hill, who's a he's an architect and he loves urban exploration so he's really into urbex visiting you know abandoned buildings factories castles mines whatever what have you right which is also a great backdrop for any kind of thriller you want to set up and and and sweden is full of all these tunnels and bunkers and stuff from the cold war because we build a lot of that and they're more or less abandoned all of them so there's a lot of things to dig into and also where you know only half of the country is populated. There's a lot of abandoned houses and things are going to explore, yeah. The abandoned houses. Yes, yes. So that's a good, a couple of good protagonists to work with,

and they know each other from since they were kids, and they haven't known each other for a number of years, and now they're sort of getting reacquainted again, right? So interesting stuff going on and all that. How many books have you written total? Let's see. I'm actually working on my, I have to count. I'm working on my seven. So I have a couple of different series. And for the Asker series, the third book was published here in Sweden last year. And just before coming on,

I'm sort of writing the ending of the fourth Asker book right now. We're supposed to be done last week, but I'm writing it now. So 17 in total. And I also write, apart from writing these Asker series as a thriller, I also write a murder mystery series with together with my wife as well,

which is more or less the opposite of a thriller. You guys, you do a murder mystery? series with your wife co-writing it yeah wow do you guys get to take out other fantasies you have of stringling each other sometimes over when you when you have a bad fight or something yeah i think i think the first question we get wherever we go to present the books i think the first question is how much do you argue yeah how exactly how much you fight you really ask that wow yeah that's hilarious whatever comes sometimes it's you know it's more like a little convoluted and they try different use different words but that's what they want to know right the audience

wants to know how much do you fight over this book and the boring answer is we don't fight so oh that's that's no fun that's yeah we have to invent to fight just to keep it i can just see a thing where what was that one thing with brad pitt and uh he eventually became his wife i think he was between wives or something or maybe he was with one the one gal from friends and then the mrs smiths and they get they get they get married and they're both assassins and then they get in a big fight and they try to kill each other because, you know, that's love. And the, uh, explains my first nine marriages and, uh, or divorces. I can't remember which.

And, you know, and so basically they, you could, you could come up with ways to kill each other, you know, and you're just like, do you really want to do that to me? Anyway, it'd be funny. I don't know. I'm just trying to do goof. Uh, so tell us about yourself. What, what, uh, when did you start writing? What were some of your influences growing?

up what got you interested in books and kind of when did you start noticing that you kind of had a knack for it when and when did you hit success right as as most writers i'm i'm you know first and foremost i'm a reader so and i started reading really early because my my mother is a librarian and oh really that's an influence for you count county library in and in southern sweden and since i'm born in the 70s grew up in the 80s there was no internet right there was like there was soccer or there was wrestling and not your fun part of wrestling. Yeah, it's a Greek or Roman wrestling. So I was a very mediocre football player and a soccer player.

And wrestling sounded, you know, deadly. So I stayed stuck with the books. And I was fortunate enough to have my mom had the keys to the library, right? So I had 24 access. I could go in whatever I wanted to and pick up whatever book I liked. So I've always been reading since I was very, very young. And I always been interested in stories and storytelling and, you know, that whole feeling of reading.

great book, you know, to have a story inside your head and, you know, just, you know, feeling all the emotions of the protagonists in the book and so on. Yeah. So I started early with that. And I was pretty good at writing in school, but I had no idea it could be actually your job, which is a bit strange, I guess, but I never even considered that. And then I went from, I was in the military and then I went to the police. And I kept my interest for books, because if you're working the police, you work in shift, right? So, so some days you're going to be off and with no one else is off, which is a good time to have a chance to, have a chance to, keep reading. And from the police then I went to the security industry. So I worked for two big

American companies. I did four years for UPS in the Nordics, packaging delivery company. And then from there I worked for Dell computers. So I did in Europe, Middle East and Africa as their security manager. So I did a lot of traveling and it was still, this was early 2000s up until 2010. So which at the time still you didn't have Wi-Fi on the planes, right? So we did long fly. which I did, like South Africa or other places, you still had a lot of time to read. And somewhere along those lines, I've been reading a lot,

and I got curious, you know, can I actually, I've been sitting in the back seat of this car now a while. Can I actually drive it? What would it be like to drive the actual car? Can I write a suspenseful story? I mean, I'm interested in reading and writing, and I have a suitable background for writing crime fiction as well. And so that's sort of the idea.

conference. I was at like 36 or 37 before I realized what I wanted to be as a grown-up, which is, yeah. Yeah. And then I am. It's not too late to start, folks. No, no. I mean, I think most actually, you hear about these very young, brilliant writers who write their autobiography when they're, you know, 20 years. But they're few and far between, right? I love the life coaches. I love the life coaches. Oh, yeah, life coaches. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I love those guys as well. Yeah. I'm a 20-year-old. I'm going to tell you about life. am I'm going to be a life or everyone who has you know struggle with you know I have I I work too much and I was you know and now I have to tell everyone how not to do it there's most writers actually

they don't debut until they're past their past 30 I think because also it's it's about your language and developing it and also about reading enough stories and you know programming your brain with with storytelling and stuff like that so yeah it's probably kind of like anything else where you know you've got to do the prep work I was listening to sam Harris's I was in to Sam Harris's podcast last night and he was his guy was asking him you know how do you how do you get good at using

these big words and talking you know sophisticatedly which isn't a word and he he said you know I read a lot of books you know from a very young age I started reading books I started challenging myself with words and what they meant

becoming a wordsmith but really it's just immersing yourself in that environment, right? And it's kind of like that 10,000 hours trade thing where the longer you spend, I cut you off and you're telling the rest of your stories. I was going to say, you know, it's practice. Like everything else, it's a little bit of talent and there's this stubbornness and practice. And then, you know, the stubbornness part. Stubberness.

Yeah, because you spend a lot of time just by yourself staring at a screen or like a blank page. And you know, a lot of people have this. That's the idea about being a writer. you sit on a cafe and you smoke a cigarette and you drink a coffee and you wait for inspiration to arrive right yeah inspiration is not going to write the book you know and i think there's a i always forget the quote it's a brilliant quote but you know inspiration has to find you working right so inspiration will come when you're working right it's it's not the thing that drives the whole whole thing so so so that's that's what i got started i i debuted in 2010 and 2012 i left my job

but Dell to be a full-time writer, and I've been a full-time writer since. Ah, well, great. Best job in the world. And how did you get your first contract to write for the big publishers? The system in Sweden is still slightly different in the US. In the US, you submit everything to an agent, and then the agents sort of sell you typically to the publisher. In Sweden, it's about 50-50, and back in 2010, it was still, you know, you sent your script to a publisher.

And you hope that they'll come back. And typically what would happen is that you get a, letter like three months later on saying you know dear mr i actually had one the worst one i ever had was dear fill in name here they forgot put my name in right and then thank you for your script fill in title here right unfortunately it's not suitable for publication so they couldn't just say no thank you and no thank you they have to tell me it was unsuitable to be published they had to shove the shiv right in there yeah yeah and i turned the knife a little oh yeah I've reminded them of that later on when I became successful.

I was, of course, you know, it was my turn to, you know, twist the knife on. Those are the best, those are the best, those are the best, those are the best, those are the best, uh, right there. I think that's funny. Remember this? Yeah. I still have my rejection notes for my book, uh, and stuff, uh, that I kept. And, uh, yeah, now I get to have a laugh.

But yeah. And most of us, most of, most writers get them, right? It could be a fact that it's actually not very good. But it could also be an idea that the publisher, you don't fit their list. They already had something had something similar. They don't believe in that type of book at the time. The wrong person gets to read it. There are so many factors involved in the whole process that if you actually,

if you knew it beforehand, you probably wouldn't even submit your script, right? Mine was a business book and I submitted it to Wiley because they're really, they're still big into business books, but they're into business books there. And it was just at the advent of the launch. It actually had been around for six months, the iPad. And it was doing so much destruction and change to the publishing business. And I think Amazon was starting to rise at that point where you could self-publish. And it looked like maybe the book publishing business was going to go dead, the physical one,

because, you know, it looked like the iPad was going to become the new way people read stuff. And so I think my first rejection was from Wiley. And it was like in the current environment, we're not taking new authors. We're only doing establishments because we don't really understand what's going on. Steve Jobs guy. Something in that effect. So now you're writing.

They knew your name and they actually knew the name of the script. So that's still a step up from my worst one. I think, yeah, I do think to fill in the blank thing is pretty funny. That's classic they have, right? It's just like. Yeah. Could it be any more generic than this, right? Yeah.

I think there's some famous songwriters, musicians, that have rejection letters like that. Maybe Elvis Presley and some other people where they're like, sorry, sir, you're, it's not really, you're not really going to go anywhere with this music, you know, and they went somewhere. So I think Stephen King may have some rejection letters like that, maybe from his early days.

Did anyone ever rejects? I wonder if anyone ever rejected him. Not sure. Most writers have been rejected. Even some that say that they haven't, they probably have, right? There's a few that were published straight away as well. Sometimes they don't write you back. They just ignore you.

They just politely ignore you. Thanks for that. We put in the shredder. We needed some paper to put in the shipping boxes to pad the box. Now, you've written 17 books, I think it was. How often do you publish, you know, some of the novels we have on the show? they're about every three to four months. They're pumping out of a book. It's crazy.

I've been publishing one, a book a year for most, most of the years. And now the past years, I've two a year since I co-write one with my wife. We have one in the spring here in Sweden and I won by myself in fall. So that's more or less how it works right now. And I think that's more or less what you can, yeah, that's what I can perform right under the right circumstances. And it's still rather tight. Yeah, yeah.

And then do you have others? series that you have with characters moving through those series or is this the only one? No, I have these two different ones, very different ones. So ask a series, which is like a thriller, suspense driven by

the tempo, the speed of the story is one of the engines. You could do, you know, and ask in the thriller, the main question is really, you know, will the main protagonists manage this challenge they're put in front of it, right? Will they survive? Which is like

the most common challenge in any thriller, right? And then we're writing a murder mystery, which is very different because there's the challenge. It's all about the mystery, right? Not as much about the characters. It's all about, you know, it's the who done it, right? Who did it and how and, you know, and why? And that's why the reader is there for the whole puzzle mystery,

which is, which, you know, takes some different tools out of your toolbox as a writer to work with a very plot-driven story and not driven by tempo as compared to a thriller, which is written by pace and twists and turns and a whole different level of suspense, right? They're very different and that requires some different tools, which I really do enjoy working with. And then also the murder mystery store we have, they're set in Italy, which means that I get to do, and my wife is half Italian, we get to do some very, very nice research for those books, right? We have to go there, we have to eat the food and drink the wine and then check out the sites.

yeah that's the that's the that's the smart thing novels too they're always like they're like uh yeah we're not vacationed oh paris okay so well i need to go there and have it paid for so that i can do the research i'm in the wrong business i need to research this i need to talk to my boss say hey i need to i'm having this author on the show from sweden and yeah i need to go see I need to go see the local Swedish, you know, sites so then I can, you know, the beautiful vistas and views of mountains and stuff. And also you need to find out if we all actually talk like the Swedish chef. Yeah. Plus, I need to check on my money and my number to count. That's not really a thing anymore, is it?

Switzerland. So, yeah, it's not Sweden. But it's Switzerland. Our money, cuckoo clocks. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. And we're the polar bears and IKEA and Abba.

Abba, that's us, yeah. Abba. Okay, now I know where you're at. An IKEA. Ikea, of course. I grew up, yeah, I was born in 68, so I know my ABBA. Remember when they used to rule the radio, man. They're just like them and Steely Dan.

Yeah. They still do. You're still here. I think so. Yeah, yeah. Same with Steely Dan. I mean, it's just timeless music. So the disco era.

But thanks for correcting me. I evidently need more coffee this morning. I'm kidding my SW's. You know, we live in America. And nothing outside America matters pretty much. So even now worse than 2025, I guess. It's kind of weird. But you're a big country.

I mean, you're $350 million roughly, right? We're 10. Yeah, but George Carlin said it. Well, I think I've done the average person as American, really 50% of them are dumber than that. So that probably explains 2025 right now to those of you looking outward in. Anyway, we don't get into that. But it's a fun world to live in.

But, oh, one of the other things I was going. going to say to you, uh, you know, we've had a lot of novels on the show and some of them come from military backgrounds. Some of them come from, uh, police detective backgrounds like you did. And boy, that those sort of, uh, areas, you know, that if you're aspiring novelists, man, that's what you want to do is go, you know, work as a detective for a while or do military stuff because they seem to, you know, they have so many components they can draw from, from those experiences, not only stories, but just how police work happens, gunplay, things of that nature. I don't know if you want to expand on that a little bit.

Yeah, I mean, it certainly helps, especially if you're writing about police officers or investigations or whatever. It helps knowing how the whole process works. And I guess it's more or less similar to national as well. You know, this is how you investigate the crime. And, you know, writing about it has some challenges, especially when you know the details, because not all the details are interesting.

actually 85% of the details are very uninteresting for any reader right so so the challenge then becomes you know how can i with my background still write the story that everyone now expects is very realistic how could i do that skipping the parts that are realistic but boring keeping the interesting stuff and you know not having my friends mock me saying you don't know how things work right so it becomes sort of like an interesting little equation there to to work out because i'll give you an example like if you have a if you have one of these murders where there's no connection between the victim, no known connection between the victim and the proprietor. Typically, you have like 50 police officers involved in that kind of investigation. And you can't write a book with, you know, 50 different police officers in it. It's going to be different people doing the crime scene investigation. They're going to be someone doing the interviews.

There's got me a lot of interviews. There might be like 100 interviews or of like 95 of those interviews who's going to say, yeah, I didn't see anything, didn't hear anything either. but you still have to do them. But I can't write 95 interviews and present them to the reader who say, here's another interview that, yeah, I didn't see anything either. That's move on. So there's a lot of that.

Whenever you see, like, here are the files. It's going to be like these big boxes with files. A lot of that's going to be just, you know, marking the boxes, taking the boxes and saying, oh, we've done this, we checked that, wasn't there. That's not where we're looking, right? And I have to find a way to get around that, not having to describe that to the reader because it's very uninteresting. And that's one of the reasons why I created the Department of Lost Souls

because they don't really do any police investigations or if they do, they don't have to follow the number of rules either. So that's not a way of cheating the whole being a crime writer with a police background kind of challenge. Department of Lost Souls. Did I get that right? And it's really funny because I've traveled around a lot in Europe and some other countries as well talking about the books.

And a lot of time I meet all the police officers. We sort of recognize each other. It's something strange with the, I don't know. police officer sort of keeps your eye contact two seconds too long or something like that. And whenever I talk about in the plot of Lost Souls or, you know, everyone goes, yeah, they're not. So do you have them too? Yeah. I like the, I like the name. It's pretty catchy. Yeah. I think I may put that on my, I think I may put that as my profile Tinder title.

Yeah, the Department of Los Souls. And I was in Spain and I talked to a police commander there and he said, yeah, in Spain we call it Siberia, he said, yeah. They send him to Siberia, Siberia. That was, you know, Department of Lost Souls, they call it Siberia. If you're sent to Siberia, you're not doing any police work anymore. You're just, you know, waiting to get, you know, retirement, and that's it. And I think it's also applicable, like, any big government organization, when it comes too big, you know, there's going to be people there that are just doing the internal stuff, right?

And that has nothing to do with, like, the core experience. They can be doing some stuff that, you know, no one even knows about. and especially in the government you know because it's so big and it's difficult to lose your lose your job if you're working for the government right what's the future coming up that you can tell us about i mean some of these things you keep secret but uh what's the what's any future books uh on the slate to be released anytime soon and either we just uh we just uh in may we just released the second murder mystery series they're actually called murder under the sun which is in italy and I'm currently finishing off

the fourth Asker series it's going to be the English name name's going to be the Knight Hunter which I think is a quite good title so I'm sorry I'm writing the last chapters now they should have been done last week but I'm writing them now

if I look slightly tired because I'm down to four hours sleep right now doing the cram yeah it's I mean after 17 books you would thought yeah I've managed to master that process not ending up in this situation but no I still

end up you know working nights towards the deadline yeah yeah it's a part of it's a part of the process so that's going to be released here in in november and the glass man is just out in the u.s which is the second second book because i like the jacket right isn't it nice yeah yeah there you go so um and the reason that the title the glass man has to do a little bit with cryogenics because if you if you cryogenically preserve a human body free z it to 300 something Fahrenheit. It actually, you start a process called vitrification, which means that the body turns into glass.

So, another title. Yeah. Ah, anyway, the, so give people final pitch out to pick your book.coms, where you want people to find you on the internet and all that stuff. Yeah. If you're looking for a very suspenseful thriller, I suggest you start with the Mountain King, or you can just go straight into the glass map.

You can find it at, I'm hoping, every local bookstore, but definitely on the internet bookstores, like Amazon.com. Just look for The Glassman or my very interesting name, Anders Delamacht, Nordic plus French. Well, thank you very much for coming on. Please come back for your future books. We have a ton of novelists that they keep coming on sometimes every few months and they're pretty prolific. I think we have Jay Jansis on the show. She might be close to 100 books at this pace. Wow. We've been on. We love having you on. Will Dean's been on. I think he comes on for every book. Man, he writes some stuff that you just read the plot and my hair stands on end.

It's like, wow. So I'll have to get into your books and check them out as well. So thank you very much for coming in the show. Thank you for having me. Thank you. And thanks for tuning in. Order up the Glass Man, a novel, part of the Asker series, book 2 of 2. It's out August 26, 2025. I think that's tomorrow. So you can buy it right off the, or no, it's today. Or it was yesterday. I don't know what day it is. Chris needs more coffee. Yesterday. I don't know what I. Clearly he needs more coffee, so I'm going to go do that, folks. Go to goodreads.com, Fortress, Chris Foss.

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