i know it's a story you've written but how much of the story is you? >> well, i guess i put a lifetime of experience into the book. everybody, is it by a graphical because the main characters suffer from extreme post traumatic stress. >> that part's not but you borrow so much from your decades of war reporting and it seems to me we have here what it does where he can tell more through fiction than he can by writing a nonfiction book. the weakness we've had, we're good together on trk v. what's it like to be that person and in that situation.