{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Paul Truesdell Podcast","title":"Eye of The Storm","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3035,"description":"Sponsor: Truesdell Wealth, Inc.  In-Person and Online & On-Demand Casual Conversations - Where nice people gather to share with one another. UNEDITED TRANSCRIPT0:00  Well, good morning, good afternoon or good evening. It is Wednesday, October 9. I thought I would do something a little bit different than the Paul Truesdale Podcast. Today. We have hurricane Milton in the neighborhood, and I finished a book series. So I thought I would talk with you a little bit about that, and maybe you might enjoy it, a legacy of thrillers. Scott Pratt, Joe Dillard and family collaboration. So Scott Pratt, P, R, A, T, T, he's an acclaimed author behind what's known as the Joe Dillard series, and he left an endearing mark on the legal theorem thriller genre, I would say, before his untimely death in 2018 so he's been gone for a while now. His novel sold literally millions of copies, and it really quite skillfully blended courtroom drama with a real complex series of moral dilemmas and his personal struggles all set in the backdrop of the state of Tennessee and their legal system. Now, the Joe Dillard series in particular stands out for its authenticity. It's a lot of emotional depth, and it's also well, it's shaped by the qualities that Pratt owned life. Essentially his wife's battle with cancer, and she eventually passed away. They had a very close bond, and he worked very closely with his son Dylan, The Joe Dillard series, a legal thriller with heart. So yeah, it it's a at the heart of Scott pratt's Success is the Joe Diller series, and he's written a few other things, but it follows a criminal defense attorney named Joe Diller. Of course, it navigates to murky waters of quote, unquote, Southern justice. And this the series begins with a book called An innocent client, where Dillard has he's tired of defending criminals and he's eager for a case where he can believe his client is innocent. The theme is one of moral conflict. It carries throughout the series, this moral conflict,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/115-XsjkdwCpJ99xv-8oZ76t6jr8ScWEC5MYSKzL0ig/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MTUx/OWRiNTc0NTk0Y2Nk/M2VjYTliMGVhN2Zm/YTZkZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}