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Frontpage Interview's guest today is Andrew Klavan, the author of such classic suspense novels as True Crime, filmed by Clint Eastwood, Don't Say a Word, filmed starring Michael Douglas, and Empire of Lies. He's been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award five times and has won it twice. He is a contributing editor to City Journal and his essays and commentary have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and elsewhere. He also writes and appears in the bi-weekly satire video Klavan on the Culture for PJTV. His new novel, The Identity Man, will be published in November.
FP: Andrew Klavan, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.
Klavan: Thank you, Jamie. It's a pleasure.
FP: You have recently been informed that the French release of your thriller novel Empire of Lies has been canceled by publisher Seuil Policiers. What's going on?
Klavan: The book, as you know, is about a politically conservative and Christian man who believes he's uncovered an Islamist terrorist plot that's being obscured by the bias and political correctness of our leftwing media. The novel was bought for Seuil by a brave and intelligent editor named Robert Pepin. Robert left to establish his own imprint at another publishing house and was replaced by a young woman. She was, as she herself explained to my agent, too upset by the "political and religious" aspects of my novel to go forward with publication. She breached our contract–for which I'd already been paid in full–and canceled the book.