Yes, it was decided to go with “two-by-four” —— to have to go into an explanation of standardized German metric lumber sizes, which the (presumably) North American readers of Judas would not be familiar with, would have been quite a distraction in that passage where the focus was on a street brawl. I’d probably have been more pedantic had it been in reference to carpentry.

The entire Tibetan episode was created pretty much entirely from Dan’s poetic license (there was an Ahnenerbe expedition to Tibet, but it was over by the time of the invasion of Poland). Since Dan created the expedition and the camp, it only followed that he was free to create an airplane hanger and runway there.

Thanks for your focus on details, Mr. Fillippov. We aim to meet our readers’ high standards!

When I started to work on the story, I figured it would be a few weeks of research and maybe a couple of months to write it. In actual fact, it took a little over a year to research it and another year to write it. After that it was months of revisions until it was finally finished. If I knew then that it would take over two years to finish it, I sometimes wonder if I would have even began the project. In the end though, I must admit that I’m glad that I stuck with it and I am very pleased with the way it turned out. I’m very happy that you enjoyed it.

Dan McNeil

I notice on his website - he finished writing it in 2006 and am curious how long it took to write it?