#Brad meltzer house of secrets series

#Brad meltzer house of secrets series

Meltzer used many of those oddball facts in the History Channel series Decoded, which ran for two years.

'And I’ve made a career from it,” he added But 2 percent of them are right on the money.

Sure, 98 percent of the letters are nuts. Meltzer added: “When someone has a theory on the true killer of Abraham Lincoln, or the whereabouts of George Washington’s stolen teeth (which really are gone), they don’t send that info to the White House. “Still, the one thought I was never able to shake was: ‘What a creative way for the government to get information from its citizens.’ Over the next year or so, the government continued to use me to do their own private research,” wrote Meltzer in the email. I was honored to be a part of what they called the Red Cell program. “A few years back, I got a call from the Department of Homeland Security asking me if I’d come in and brainstorm different ways for terrorists to attack the United States. In an email and a press release, Meltzer explained how he nearly became a secret agent: Meltzer has been relating this story and how it influenced his novel The House of Secrets. In one of those odd truth is stranger than fiction, or maybe fiction follows facts, this kind of really happened. Jack may not have simply been an inquisitive man deeply invested in eccentric facts-he also was working with the government. The fictional series, which also is called The House of Secrets, indulges Jack’s many obsessions-JFK and Benedict Arnold’s Bible among them.īut after his death-and I am not giving away any spoilers here-Jack’s own house of secrets is uncovered. In Brad Meltzer’s latest novel, The House of Secrets, Jack Nash is the host of a long-running popular TV series that investigates the unexplained.