Thank you very much for sitting down with I24 News. The first question that I wanted to ask you was about your personal encounters with the Queen, if you have any memories to share, maybe not just with the Queen but the royal family as well. So I was very lucky. Yes, I met the Queen a few times both in private and in public and she was lovely. She had a fantastic sense of humour but also an amazing amount of experience. She visited 120 countries. She became Queen when Israel was only five years old so just her depth of experience, her political knowledge was really impressive and yes I've been lucky enough to have Prince Charles when he came to Israel in 2020 and he spent time in this house and with President Herzog I visited him at his house in the UK just last November. So yes, I've been very lucky indeed. Queen Elizabeth II really maintained friendly relations with both the Jewish community in and out of Britain as well as Israeli dignitaries having hosted a few of them when they travelled to London but she never made a visit to Israel. Why is that? So there was definitely no ban on her ever visiting Israel as it has been suggested and as I said the royal family actually visited Israel a lot recently so Prince William came here in 2019. Prince Charles just two years ago but in recent years the Queen hasn't travelled so much so Prince Charles, Prince William were very much travelling and representing her and there are really warm relations between Israel and the royal family. The King's grandmother is buried on the Mount of Olives. She's a Princess Alice. She's a righteous amongst the nations and I've talked to Prince Charles, now the King and there's real respect and affection and interest in Israel. We had a correspondence that was actually outside the British Embassy, not necessarily your residence on the day that the Queen passed and it was relatively empty. Is that maybe just showing more or less how the Israeli public maybe feels towards the royal family that disconnects? So we had the condonance book as you said here at the residence rather than at the embassy and we had lots of people coming so we had everybody there. The President who in fact is the first name in the condonance book but the Prime Minister Netanyahu all came but also what was really lovely for us was how many normal Israelis came, neighbors, people who met the royal family when they visited here and people from all different communities and parts of Israel from the Kharedi community, the Arab community, a small girl who bought her Paddington bear which was very lovely British nationals so just that sort of real depth of affection in Israel for the Queen personally and for the royal family. We found really touching and really moving and we're really grateful for it. Israel is in the midst of a new election season, the fifth in what will be just over three years. Did you notice perhaps any of the politicians coming here that seemed to be genuinely giving their respect for the Queen or were seen as more of a kind of political entanglement or necessity that they felt that they needed to be here? So I felt it was genuine, genuine affection so President Herzog, so his father visited the Queen when he was president as a state visit. He has met Prince Charles both at this house and in the UK so there's a very strong personal relationship but also Netanyahu who talked about when he met members of the royal family no so felt real yes a sense of personal connection and affection for the royal family which we really liked and of course the recognition as you said of the really close relationship between the UK and Israel. Is there supposed to be a connection? The monarch is more of a ceremonial role the same way that in Israel so is our presidency and the Prime Minister exactly like the UK is the one that's conducting official politics and business. Are we likely to see ties maybe strengthening or is that sort of separate that there's the monarch and its relationship with Israel and then there's the UK and its relationship with Israel? So the monarch's relationship with Israel the fact that it's so strong is partly also at the request of the the British government because we the monarch tends to visit at the request of the government but yeah we also have a new Prime Minister she visited Israel just last year and she's extremely interested in and positive about Israel so yes I think the relationship is going to be even closer just this week we formally launched a free trade agreement negotiations with the government of Israel so we really hope to to push the the official relationship along as well as the the people-to-people relationship of which the the royal family is clearly a really big part. Do you have a message for the Israeli public about wanting to strengthen those ties or just how important perhaps the monarchy is and why they should have a stronger relationship with them? So I think I think Israelis do feel that strong relationship I think about 200 000 Israelis go to Britain every year for holiday Israelis go and choose to study in the UK so I think those those links are really strong and I think people do come back and they've seen Buckingham Palace they've seen the changing of the guard but also just yeah talk to British people watch the crown and get a sense of how unusual and how special the relationship is between the British people and the royal family and the part that they they play in our lives and again I hope that watching the funeral on Monday a broadcast like this will help people understand why the by British people feel so proud of and so much affection for our our amazing royal family. Everybody knows the queen's sense of service and duty but the big thing is that we are not probably in our lifetimes going to see another female queen monarch in the United Kingdom it's now going to be sort of a line of of men would likely still be stability even though it is now King Charles and obviously once that passes to Prince William. So I think she's been an amazing role model including for women in the UK so almost every woman has grown up in the UK with our head of state as the queen and the seen this as a constant example and but of course we're now on our third female prime minister so we have lots of other role models as well and again our system is designed so that the when the queen dies and the king is now in place but that transfer of of loyalty and authority will go straight to him so even though it's a huge change our banknotes will change our coins will change our stamps will change but still there's the symbol of the royal family remains hugely important to people and that has been through much bigger changes than this and I'm sure will carry on for a long time. Let's hope that those ties do carry on a long time not just with the British monarchy but also between Israel and the United Kingdom Ambassador thank you very very much for sitting down with us today on 924 News. Thank you very much indeed.


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Fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty high old silver, the Lone Ranger. This faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations. And nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Silver! There's danger on the trail ahead! I want... Mr. Tonto started on the trail of an outlaw in Texas. Weeks of travel and relentless pursuit took them into the mountainous snow-covered high border country just south of Canada. Having captured the outlaw and turned him over to the local authorities, the masked man and Tonto stayed in the Copperfield Hills around Copperville because of a boy of 14 named Daniel. There was something about this boy that made both the Lone Ranger and his Indian friend want to know Dan better. Tonto had deeply planted thoughts about the boy, but he kept these to himself. The Lone Ranger saw in Dan many qualities that amazed him. Move, Silver, forward! There's where Martin has his office, Tonto. We'll go and see him. Dan not worked there now. I know it. That's why I came today. I wanted to talk to Mr. Martin when Dan wasn't there. You think Martin know about Dan? Easy, big fella. There, Silver. Dan's helped Mr. Martin in the office from time to time. We'll see. How do you... How do you do? How do you do? I came to speak to Mr. Martin. Is he here? He's my father. I know who you are. You do? Please listen to me. Daniel has said so much about you. I know you're not an outlaw. I know that everything you've done has been for the good of... but the fact that you wear a mask... I know that father would want to help you, but the law... Miss Martin, what are you trying to say? Father is talking to some sort of lawman in the other room. I think it might be you they're talking about. Please go, hurry. I know my father wouldn't want you taken. But the law isn't after me. Then why... Are you sure I'm the subject of discussion? No, not exactly. Well, to ask your father about Dan... Oh, he isn't in trouble. He hasn't done anything wrong. If I know means. Quite the contrary. He's done so much that's right that I'd like to know more about him. We... We all think an awful lot of him. For a boy of 14, he seems to be so... so well-informed. And he has such high ideals. I've been impressed by him. While you're waiting for father, do you mind if I say something? No, not at all. I... We... Well, everyone likes Dan. They all know how he made you his ideal, long before you came here to the North Country. For years he has been devouring every shred of information he could get about you. He has? Yes, and his grandmother told him a lot of things about you, too. She heard them from the people who had been in the South. The point I'm trying so poorly to make is just this. Don't let that boy down. I don't intend to. He has said something to father about working with you. Helping you. There's a lot of boy with Dan's ideals can do. His grandmother needs him. I thought she did. She isn't as strong as she appears. Dr. Sawyer feels that her tired old heart may give out at any time. Dr. Sawyer? Yes. He's our only doctor here in Copperville. Dan's place is with his grandmother as long as she needs him. And... And then what? Well, I don't know. I'm right. Sorry I can't be of more help to you. We'll appreciate what help you can give and have given, Mr. Martin. Thank you. Good day, Miss Betty. Good day. Well... Mr. Brault, I believe. Mask. A friend of mine, Brault. Mask. That man is connected with a law in Canada. Yes, I know. I've heard of him. Have you ever seen him before? No, I haven't. He wasn't in uniform. No. Brault, the grimace of old man honors needs no uniform. I saw the way he looked at you. I wanted to question my mask. Please don't think me presumptuous in calling you a friend. Saved a lot of explanation. I'm honored, Mr. Martin. Thank you. I suppose you've already introduced yourself, Betty. Yes, Father. The lone ranger came to ask about Dan. Dan? Mr. Martin, what's the boy's last name? His last name? The same as his grandmother's, Frisbee. Why? Oh, then she is his grandmother. Well, yes. What made you question it? Why do you ask that? Well, it's something too vague to explain. I'm interested in the boy. I thought he might be someone else. As far as I know, he's the grandson of Mrs. Frisbee. He's always lived here, at least as far back as I know. Martin, I want to talk to you. Oh, Higgins. Yeah, Higgins. Oh. So the mask man's here, too. What are you scheming? I was going to send for you, Higgins. You're through. Through? Fired. I don't want crooks working here. You lied when you got the jobs. Oh, that's it. Brault was talking, huh? Brault asked. If you were employed in the Martin Copper mines. I told him you were. Yeah.  He gave me a few facts that disagreed with what you told me about yourself. Well, Brault's got no power south of the border. He can't touch me here. This ain't Canada. Canadian police ain't no authority here. I know that. So does Brault. So you're firing me on his say, sir.  All right. Give me my phone. All right. Give me my pay. Here you are, Mr. Higgins.  Is that the right amount? It'll do. But you get this, Martin. You can't make me leave town, see? I know my rights and you can't run me out of town over the border. I don't intend to bother about you. As long as you stay away from here. And you needn't be scared any of this, have you? I ain't even gonna make no trouble. You don't need to call in the loan ranger to protect you from me. Get out of here. I always thought you was Yeller, Martin. But I didn't think you screamed to the loan ranger for protection. I should get.  The law wants him in Canada. Yes, murder. He knows better than to cross the border then. He knows he's safe this side of Coon Creek. The creek runs on the border line. You say he's wanted for murder? Yes, and as cowardly a murder has ever been committed. He stabbed an old woman in the back so she couldn't make an outcry when he entered her home to steal her lifetime savings. He should be taken back to Canada. Oh, it wouldn't do. Why not? Lawmen are very particular. Unless Higgins crosses the border of his own volition, they can't touch him. He as much as said that you asked the loan ranger to protect us from him, Dad. He called you a rank coward. Yes, but that doesn't matter. And he recognized me. He'll be on guard whenever I'm around. He probably will make a point of watching what I do, expecting that I'll try and turn him over to the law. Mr. Martin, I put jumpers, ginger, the loan rangers here. Oh, Dan. Collie, I didn't expect to find you here. I sure am glad to see you. Oh, see, I've been telling Graham about your plans. My plan? Well, you know, someday I could work with you. Oh, yes, that's right, Dan. Someday. She sure was pleased. She said she'd sure like me to travel as your sidekick. How is your grandmother, Dan? Oh, she's pretty good. She doesn't seem to be as spry as she was. I wish there was some way I could make her feel stronger. Dan, I'd like to talk to you. Sure. Perhaps you can help me right now. Mr. Martin, I was to work here today. Oh, go ahead with the loan ranger, Dan. Bet you'll help me here in the office. Dan might be able to help carry out a little plan to put our friend on the north side of the border, Mr. Martin. Fine. What can I do? Hey, Dan. Hey, Danny. Huh? I ran to get here. I got a note that I was to hand you. A note? Yeah. Here it is. May I read it, Mr. Martin? Of course. But Dan might not be watched as closely as I'll be. He might carry out a certain part of a plan to turn that killer Higgins over to the Royal Canadian Mounted. I've got to leave you. Dan, what's the matter? What is it, Dan? I can't tell you now. I've got to leave you. That's all. Goodbye. Dan, you were going to help me put Higgins in jail. I can't. That's all. I can't do anything now. What of all things? What was that note? Cracky, I don't know. It was just give to me by some gent. That's all I know. I wonder if Higgins... He seemed to be shaking as soon as Higgins' name was mentioned. It might have been a threat. Higgins threatened that boy out there. Hold on. What are you going to do? Sooner we act the better. Gosh, Pa, I don't know how to explain it, but I feel as if there's a lot of blasting powder just getting ready to explode. With Tonto riding it aside, the lone ranger raced for the small, well-concealed camp in the woods. There he and the Indian made plans. We'll find out about Dan later on, Tonto. The first thing to do is find out why he acted so strangely when he got that note. Then dispose of Higgins. We can take the time to learn more about Dan's past. While I ride to Dan's home, you ride to the border. To Coon Creek. Examinate. Very carefully. Who? We'll see what Dan has to say, silver old fella. Dan! I want to speak to you. I can't let you in. Please believe me. I believe anything you say, Dan. What can I do to help? Nothing. Would you care to show me the note you received? Nope. I can't. I see. You going after Higgins? That's the program. That's what I thought. Do you know any reason why we shouldn't? No, sir. Or any reason why we should? Oh, sure you should. He's a killer. Mr. Martin fired him. He'll make no end of trouble around here. He might harm Mr. Martin or Miss Betty. I wish I could help. Can't you? No, sir. You would sooner or not say why? I can't. That's all there is to it. I can't help now. Very well, Dan. I'll see you later. Take care of things. I will. Easy, big fella. Come on, silver old fella. Stranger rode hard to join Tonto, who was studying the land on both sides of the creek that followed a course through the woods on the international boundary. Come on, silver old fella. Easy. Tonto, we'll have to work this out alone. What matters, Dan? I don't know. Him not Tonto? No, but he has a good reason for what he's doing. I know that. What's your plan? Well, I've got to locate Higgins. When I do, I'll be under the skies. Meanwhile, there are things you've got to do right here in the woods. Me do them. I'll come over this way and I'll show you the plan I have in mind. And I've got to hurry back to town. I think I can find Higgins in the cafe. I know what Martin and that lone ranger want. They want me to do something so I can be jailed. They're afraid of me.  Nobody ever said you was a fool, Higgins. So? Sure, I'm so at Martin. The army buzzard didn't have to fire me just on the kind of brilliant say-so. Sorry to break in, but I'm in the hurry. I want information. What's on your mind, stranger? I want to find a man named Higgins. That's me. Why are you looking for me? You. Higgins. A sinner was. Who are you? My name's unimportant Higgins. I've got something to talk over with you. Mind if we go to the private room? Go ahead. You go first, mister. Now, who are you? Where you from and what do you want to me? That gun away, Higgins. The number of the two of us here, stranger. My words better than yours here. I got friends, Abby. What of it? You won't get nowhere trying to talk me out of holding an iron on you. Say what you got to say and make it short. First of all, I'll have a look at that big envelope in your pocket. Go ahead. I am. I'm good. Where'd you get this? Where you want to re... Look at it again, Higgins, before you open it. Mister. If this is what I think it is, you won't ever leave this room alive. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. The Lone Ranger disguised, left Tonto in the woods near the boundary and went to the cafe to talk to Higgins. In the back room, Higgins drew a gun and held it on the Lone Ranger while he looked the outside of an envelope. I was going to show you that anyway, Higgins. You needn't have thrown a gun on me to take it. What's this mean? Evidence against these Higgins. Higgins, you know what you've done. So you know what that evidence is all about. Where'd you get this? No one ever committed a perfect crime. You should realize that. You take your guns out slow and lay them on the table. Aim to have a look at what's inside this envelope. I thought we might make a deal. Any dealin' we'll do will be on my terms, heavy. Oh, I doubt that.  Even while you're lookin' down the barrel of my gun. That information was supposed to reach one of two men. Yeah? Martin or the Lone Ranger. So that's it, huh? They've been gunnin' for me for some time. It's himin' for evidence. I said don't hold to your guns. Yes, I heard you say that. You said put them on the table. Well, do it. Oh, not just yet. No, you don't. This way. Why'd you want it?  You can talk better without a gun in your hand. I'm most busted in my wrist. So you're faster. You shouldn't play with guns, Higgins. What's inside that the envelope? Let me see it. I might have if you hadn't decided to take the deal. Don't like to have a gun pointed at me. I don't like to be talked to that way. All right, all right. You got the whip hand now. What's your proposition? I suppose you're huntin' me up to sell it to me. You are willing to sell me that envelope? I might have been for the right price. Let me see the inside of it. Oh, I've changed my mind, Higgins. What do you mean changed your mind? I don't like you. Are you local? Why? You don't have to like me to make a business deal. Maybe you can make a sale if you show me what's in there. I ain't ever done anything wrong. But maybe there's a mistake somewhere. The only mistakes are the ones you've made. You see, it's always likely to be a witness to what a man does. But now we don't deal. I'll take this where I was supposed to. Hey, I heard some scuffling. Is there anything wrong? No, nothing's wrong. Hey, look here. Let me have a look at the inside of that, will you? No, Higgins. I'm going to take it to Mr. Martin. Maybe he'll know what to do with it. The Lone Ranger is still disguised, left the cafe, and went to Martin's home. He handed the sealed envelope to the owner of the copper mine, apparently unaware that Higgins had followed silently and watched from a vantage point outside an open window. Open it up, Mr. Martin. Read it all the way through before you comment. Well, my father is reading this. Can't I get you something to eat or drink? No, thank you. By thunderous. This beats everything I ever heard. Why? What is it? Just a minute. I'd better take one more look at a few of the lines here. They mean exactly what they say. Well, fine. So there's evidence to put that ornery killer into jail even if he doesn't cross the creek and go to Canada. I think Higgins will land where he should, Mr. Martin. It wouldn't be possible for you or the sheriff to put him there. How about yourself? I was told that there was a man around here called the Lone Ranger. Oh, yes, there is. Good. You sound as if you thought pretty well of him, Betty. Oh, I do. I admire him more than any man I know. But, Dad, what are you laughing at? Well, nothing, Betty. Nothing at all. Mr. Martin, is there any chance that you'll be seeing this man who's called the Lone Ranger? Uh, I wouldn't be surprised. Then you can tell him where to find me. As I can, if I know, where will you be? I'm going to camp just this side of the creek. The creek?  Yes. I'll keep a fire going all night so it'll be easy to find my camp. We needn't camp any open. There's room here in my house. Thanks, but I think it'll be easier for me to pass on the contents of that envelope if I'm alone when the time comes. If you're going to shoot yourself, maybe you've got a reason for wanting to be near the creek. It's, uh, it's on the borderline, you know? Yes, I know. I'll take that envelope with me. Very well. And say... Yes, sir. When you, when you see the Lone Ranger, you might tell him how Betty feels toward him. Good evening, Mr. Martin. We campin' alone in the honorary coyote. Higgins, having overheard the conversation and Martin's comfortable house by standing near the window, made grim plans. I'll get him there. I'll get him before the Lone Ranger can get to him. That's what I'll do. I can't afford to take chances. A short time later, a campfire gleamed in the woods at night. The flickering light reflected from the snow and outlined the dark, uneven line that was a stream of running water known as Coon Creek. Higgins saw the light and a figure busily engaged in fashioning a lean-to. Alone there. That's good. I'll get him. It's a good thing there's plenty of snow. He couldn't hear me if I ran as hard as he could. His horse is tethered nearby. I wonder if he could have seemed to know I'm coming. Who is it? He likely thinks I'm the man he's waiting for at the Lone Ranger. Who is it? I reckon you're expecting me. Come on then. Can there be a fire where I can see you? I'm right here. There's guns leveled at you. Hello, Higgins. But, Mast, you're here first. See here. What's this mean? What do you think it means? What did you expect to find here? Don't you make a move, you're covered. And this time you won't get that chance to slap my gun aside. Keep your distance. I'm not moving closer to you. What are you after? You know darn well what I'm after. I'm after that the envelope. Envelope? The one you showed me earlier. The one you showed Martin. Oh, yes. You wasn't wearing that, Mast then. What's your game anyhow? The only thing I have in mind, Higgins, is to see you turned over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. And? Well, I won't be, see. Not as long as I stay south of the border. Now, give me that envelope. There it is. On that log near the fire. Good. Stand still. Don't you make a move or I'll shoot. There. There goes all that evidence. It's just as well. What do you mean by that? All there was in that was a note to Mr. Martin. Telling him that you'd be listening to what I said to him. Telling him what to say to me. What? You said it was something about me. I said it would put you where you belong and it will. Not now it won't. It's all burned up. But it has, Higgins. You knew you'd done things in the States. Things for which you should have been jailed. You thought there was proof of those things in the envelope. Well, that envelope brought you here. Canada. You're local.  This ain't Canada. It sure as thunder is. Got that gum chiller.  You can't touch me. You're on Canadian soil right now, Higgins. I ain't. This is United States. I'm south of Coon Creek. There's the creek right over there. But the border is south of here. Maybe you forgot that the creek's frozen over and covered with snow. You walked right over it coming to this campfire. I tell you it's a lie. I can see the creek. Me fix that stream of water. Me dig channel in snow. Turn part of creek into channel. Hey, this ain't legal. It ain't right. It's legal, Higgins. You came here for your own free will. And the minute you stepped over the border, we were here to put you under arrest for murder. And I have men with me to bear witness. Have a long tunnel. Be ready. Wait. Let me thank you. Leaving the outlaw Higgins and the capable hands of the Northwest Mounted Police, the Lone Ranger and Tonto headed back for the little mining town of Copperville. And as they rode, one question kept going through the mind of the masked man. Why had Dan, who admired the Lone Ranger more than any other person in the world, refused to go with him to capture Higgins?   Yeah, this time, Tonto, I think Dan will tell us why he didn't stay with us. Easy, big fella. I'm coming. I can go with you now. Gee, I was hoping you'd be back. Hold on. Dan, we're finished. We came back to see you. Come in. Thank you. You mean you're all through with Higgins? Yes, Dan. Come on, Tonto. You come in too. I'll fix up a bike for the two of you. Come on, Tonto. Where is Higgins? In Canada. He is. Captured by Brelt. Oh, golly. Do you hear that, Graham? I told you the Lone Ranger would find a way to get him there. Dan, I want to speak to you. Oh, I suppose it looked as if I backed out. I guess I did. No, let me tell it, Daniel. I think the Lone Ranger will understand. You needn't explain that. But I want to. I'm... Well, I'm not as young as I might be. Oh, Graham, you'll be all right now. Could just follow the doctor's orders. You see, my heart's pretty old and kind of worn down. And I...  Oh, Dr. Sawyer sent word for Dan to come here and stay with me. Oh, I... I couldn't do much, but I didn't want Graham here alone. Then tell me why you didn't say something about this. Well, I know it was important for you to deal with Higgins before he made trouble for Mr. Martin and Betty and maybe a lot of others. Yes, but then... What would you have done if Graham wasn't feeling well? You'd have dropped Higgins and come here with me, wouldn't you? Why do you think I would have dropped Higgins? Well, because you would have. You'd have dealt with him later on. Well, perhaps... if you helped Graham and me, Higgins might have made trouble. Well, I guess I figured that Higgins was more important. Well, it was just a case of the thing that was best for the greatest number. The thing that was best for the greatest number. Mrs. Frisbee. Yes? There's one thing I want to ask you. Everyone says that Dan's last name is Frisbee. The same as yours. That's what he's always been called. Is it truly his name? No. Graham. It isn't. I always thought... Your real name, Daniel, is not Frisbee. You hear that? Yes. Yes, Tonto, I heard. But why are you... I'm going to leave here now, Mrs. Frisbee. Dan, there are things to be checked on. The most important things in my life. Then I'll see you again real soon. Graham. What's he mean? I wonder, Dan. I wonder. Get out, scum!  Just what lies in back of the young friend's name? What can possibly be the most important thing in the entire career of the Lone Ranger? The answer will come in the next thrilling broadcast. The story you have just heard is a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


If I had a million dollars I could make anyone fall in love with me. Anyone. Or just the person that I really want. Keep watching to find out what that has to do with today's book. This is video number six of vlogmas 2022 on Kyla's reading day. I'm Kyla Denigno and today we are discussing one of my favorite series of all time. We're discussing the book sleeping with strangers. So this book is written by Air Drum Dickie. The genre of the book is fiction. The theme of the book is suspense thriller. For vlogmas 2022 I'm going through 12 books written by Air Drum Dickie. And so sleeping with strangers is the first book in the Gideon series. I'm gonna get a little blurry here because the camera is trying to compete. Sleeping with strangers, waking with enemies, dying for revenge, resurrecting midnight and then finding Gideon. Okay. And now the thing about the book to me is Gideon's interaction with the squares. For one it's the designation of them as being squares because they're not con men, con women in the wet work business. For one it starts off with Gideon and you find out that he's on an airplane headed somewhere. He runs into a woman who's crying on the plane the entire flight to London and you also run into someone else who we find out is Lola Mack. Now Air Drum Dickie does a really good job of intertwining, intermingling his characters. So we learn that the woman who's crying the entire time ends up being Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Jones is actually the mother of a character in a prior book. In the book the daughter Mo gets into some trouble and you find out that her parents are going through a divorce and then you find out that Mrs. Jones is the same person and it's he loves to intermingle and intertwine his characters. So it's really important that you get to see Gideon interacting with these people because they're just like, what if, what if I was sitting next to a killer on a plane, right? Like it just gets your mind going and going and wondering, right? The thing I love about the book is the part where Lola Mack is walking around and she can't wait to see her boyfriend. She can't wait to see him. Can't wait to see him, right? He's in the play branch. Can't wait to see him. So she meets Gideon and she's humming all these songs which mean nothing to him. 525,600 minutes if you know what that's from. So there's all these references to these songs and they mean nothing to Gideon, right? He's a contract killer. He gets a job, he goes out, he takes care of it, he goes back home or to wherever. So Gideon learns about how to get into the wet work industry because he wants a million dollars. The girl of his dreams said that he cannot even take her out until he has a million dollars, okay? We'll talk about high standards, a million dollars. And so that is his entire goal. He's working, he's working, he's saving up money, he wants this million dollars.  Can you believe that? What I love about the series is that Eric Drume Dickey humanizes a contract killer. I never thought I would say that sentence. Never. And one of the things I love about Eric Drume Dickey is that I like to read his acknowledgements where he writes about where he was, what was happening during this time of the final review and when he's hitting submit or publish. And it's great to think of his creativity of him just being in a hotel room writing and one of his prior characters jumps out and they're like, I can't believe you only had me in that book four years ago. When do I get another chance, right? So when I reread the book, Sleeping with Strangers, yes, it is your first introduction to Gideon. It gets you right into the Gideon series, which is five books, but I like to think they're six. These paradise, sleeping with strangers, waking with enemies, which is tomorrow, dying for revenge, resurrecting midnight, and then finding Gideon. Okay, so we are going to go through all of those books with exception thieves paradise. I won't give up the entire plots. These books are big, right? So thank you for hanging out with me as we continue to go through novels by Eric Drume Dickey as a part of Vlogmas 2022. Okay, I'm having so much fun reading all these books for Kyla's reading day and releasing these videos to you every single day for the 12 days leading up to Christmas. Okay, so let me know. Have you read this book? Have you read the series? The Gideon series is really, really great. So thank you for hanging out with me as I reviewed another book by Eric Drume Dickey. Hope you're getting ready for Christmas and I will see you tomorrow with another video of Kyla's reading day. Bye.