“The challenge is to make you love Lloyd and make you realize that Lloyd is extraordinary and that you realize that before Lloyd does.”

Will Leitch returns to the show to talk all about his new book, “Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride.” which is out now and you should totally buy!

Will describes how a pre-pandemic visit to a family friend helped plant the seed for the book’s premise, and how that premise allows him to address the existential angst that parents are feeling about the world they’re leaving their kids. Will also reveals the biggest challenge in writing Lloyd as a character, why he wrote the book in the present tense, and how all of his novels have clocks in one way or another.

Will and Brian talk about the action sequences in the book, how they were influenced by Will’s love of movies and how listening to The Donnas was Will’s secret for those scenes. They also talk about how Will’s excellent weekly newsletter influenced parts of this book.

“I want you to feel the entire time like this is happening right now.”

Links

Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride on Bookshop.org (to support independent bookstores.)

Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride on Amazon

All of Will’s books

Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson (The best thing Will’s read lately.)

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham (The best thing Brian’s read lately.)

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