Brad Meltzer returns with his most personal thriller yet.
In The Viper – the third installment in his acclaimed Zig and Nola series – Brad Meltzer sends his favorite characters back into the field to untangle a secret buried deep enough to kill for. The trail runs through the guarded corridors of Dover Air Force Base, into the shadow world of witness protection, and straight into the wounds veterans carry home.
Classic Meltzer, The Viper is meticulously researched, emotionally charged, and impossible to put down.
In this conversation, Brad takes us behind the curtain – how he builds characters that readers can’t stop thinking about, the surprising research that shaped The Viper, what it’s like moving fluidly across genres, and how he decides which story gets told next. And after all the twists, the danger, and the darkness his characters navigate, Brad leaves us with something a simple piece of wisdom for making sense of this chaotic world.
Meet Brad Meltzer
Emmy-nominated Brad Meltzer is #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lightning Rod, The Escape Artist, and 11 other bestselling thrillers. He also writes non-fiction books like The JFK Conspiracy, and the Ordinary People Change the World kids book series, which he does with Chris Eliopoulos. In addition to his fiction, Brad is one of the only authors to ever have books on the bestseller list for Non-Fiction (The Nazi Conspiracy), Advice (Heroes for My Son and Heroes for My Daughter), Children’s Books (I Am Amelia Earhart and I Am Abraham Lincoln) and even comic books (Justice League of America), for which he won the prestigious Eisner Award. As the host of Brad Meltzer’s Lost History and Brad Meltzer’s Decoded on the History Channel, Brad is responsible for helping find the missing 9/11 flag.