Robert Franklin “Bob” Banks, age 93, passed away at his home on Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, surrounded by his family. Mr. Banks was born in Surry County on Nov. 8,
Steve Berry sells a lot of books. Like 20 million and counting.
Where does he get the ideas behind best-sellers such as The Warsaw Protocol, The 14th Colony, The Malta Exchange and The Lost Order ?
At Jacksonville s Chamblin Bookmine, the labyrinthine bookstore off Roosevelt Boulevard, of course. Berry, whose new thriller The Kaiser s Web comes out Tuesday, said he can spend hours poring through the history section at the bookstore, trolling for that ooh factor he can build a book around. I m looking for that thing from history that’s real, that makes you go ooh. It would be easy to make them up but it has to be real and it has to still have relevance today, Berry said.