company. lets let s kind of start there. wide exxonmobil? how did you come to the subject? i know that previously in your career so why this company and how did it differ from some of their other subjects like that bin laden s? guest: it s an interesting, to me it was an interesting journey because as you point out i started out as a business reporter on wall street when i was very young and then i went abroad and worked more on the international subjects and after 9/11 i wrote about the war engines of the 9/11 attacks in 20 years of american covert policy in afghanistan in this vote goes towards and after that was over i thought you know i want to keep writing about america and the world after 9/11, this sort of asymmetric, strange groping that we had as the country to understand what the attacks were about and what they meant to the united states, what were the relationships with their middle east and that led me to the bin laden s which was a book intended to be about sa