If HBO is looking for the next "Game of Thrones," may I submit that one option is the Proof trilogy, which is 2,400 pages—published over a 22-month period—and involves hundreds of characters across six continents and more violence/crime than one could imagine in a nonfiction book
PS/ I realize ProCo (Proof of Collusion, Proof of Conspiracy, Proof of Corruption) is—at 2,400 pages—an embarrassingly short epic as compared to ASOIAF, but OTOH in a pinch I can write new books in months as opposed to the decade between the last GoT book and (maybe) the next one
PS2/ Already ruined my pitch by not tagging @HBO 😋
PS3/ The book takes us from seedy Tel Aviv hotel rooms to seedy Moscow hotel rooms to seedy NYC—okay, I'm sensing a pattern
But also Emirati death squads, cabals in Venezuelan palaces, aborted ground invasions, corrupt yacht mixers, fake companies and accounts, Oval Office graft
But also Emirati death squads, cabals in Venezuelan palaces, aborted ground invasions, corrupt yacht mixers, fake companies and accounts, Oval Office graft
PS4/ Did I mention dramatic arrests of pedophiles at airports, clandestine executions, corrupt extradition appeals to the Attorney General, a historic (but also historically dangerous) Sunni Muslim-Israeli alliance, armies of cyberspies, armies of *regular* spies, arms dealing...
PS5/ ...war profiteering, war crimes, successful ground invasions, US troops fired upon by a NATO ally, a bribery scandal resulting in 125,000+ American dead. You know, the more I think about it the more I realize @HBO couldn't do this. Too big, too unbelievable—though 100% true.
