{"id":856,"date":"2011-08-04T07:29:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T11:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/?p=856"},"modified":"2011-08-04T11:55:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T15:55:45","slug":"an-interview-with-max-renn-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/04\/an-interview-with-max-renn-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Max Renn (Part One?)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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See the terrific new review of ‘Mindbenders’ from the Paranormal Romance Guild here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The following is an exclusive interview with Max Renn, the reputed former Soviet spy and now alleged terrorist. The interview was conducted several months after Renn and three others were implicated in an assassination plot at the G8 in Rome:<\/p>\n

Ted: Thanks for agreeing to this interview.<\/p>\n

Renn: No, it doesn\u2019t matter and not on your life.<\/p>\n

Ted: Excuse me?<\/p>\n

Renn: Those are the answers to the first three questions you were going to ask.<\/p>\n

Ted: Well, okay, great\u2014we get you\u2019re a mindreader\u2014but nobody will understand the answers unless I ask the questions first.<\/p>\n

Renn: Just insert them in the transcript. I won\u2019t tell.<\/p>\n

Ted: I can\u2019t do that. I have just a little integrity left and I\u2019m trying \u00a0to hold onto it. Can\u2019t we just do this normally?<\/p>\n

Renn: It\u2019ll be over much faster my way. In the Lab, in Novosibirsk\u2026<\/p>\n

Ted: Why did you agree to do the interview if you\u2019re going to make a shambles of it?<\/p>\n

Renn: My colleagues persuaded me this would be good for us. And Greg wanted the publicity for his book.<\/p>\n

Ted: You mean \u2018Mindbenders\u2019? Available in ebook and paperback, links for purchase at the end of this interview.<\/p>\n

Renn: I see what you mean about your integrity.<\/p>\n

Ted: And, by the way, it\u2019s my<\/em> book. I wrote it. It says \u2018Ted Krever\u2019 on the cover.<\/p>\n

Renn: You are a front. You edit Greg\u2019s manuscript and fill in a few details that Greg doesn\u2019t have at his disposal.<\/p>\n

Ted: I wrote every word of that book. Several times.<\/p>\n

Renn: I delivered Greg\u2019s manuscript into your mind. You typed it and did a little minor editing. You wrote the one chapter that Greg didn\u2019t directly witness, the Jerry Lowery chapter. Which, if I may say, read like a cheap thriller.<\/p>\n

Ted: Good thing you\u2019re not a literary critic.<\/p>\n

Renn: Unfortunately for you, others are. You are also useful because you possess a Social Security number and \u00a0bank account so you can collect the income from the distribution websites, which Greg can\u2019t do at the moment.<\/p>\n

Ted: Because he\u2019s a wanted terrorist.<\/p>\n

Renn: We are innocent of that charge.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ted: Then why are you on all the \u2018Wanted\u2019 shows on television? On the cover of the New York Post every couple of days?<\/p>\n

Renn: The Kardashians are on the cover as much as we are. We are in the media because they have ratings to hit and newspapers to sell. The government says we are terrorists so they parrot that line.<\/p>\n

Ted: So this is all a government conspiracy against you?<\/p>\n

Renn: It is a conspiracy of people who influence government\u2014and business and media\u2014at the highest level.<\/p>\n

Ted: And you\u2019re going to claim the income from the book?<\/p>\n

Renn: At the moment, you\u2019re not making enough to be worth claiming. Your tax man will take more to do your taxes next year. But if you should ever develop any meaningful income, there are things you\u2019ll want to do for us.<\/p>\n

Ted: Because you\u2019ll suddenly become my best friends?<\/p>\n

Renn: Because I\u2019ll make you want to.<\/p>\n

Ted: If you can do that, why not just make me send you money out of my account now? Why wait?<\/p>\n

Renn: Because that is my<\/em> integrity. And if I was going to raid someone\u2019s bank account, you wouldn\u2019t be top of the list.<\/p>\n

Ted: You\u2019re a pretty ruthless guy. Greg doesn\u2019t portray you that way.<\/p>\n

Renn: At the moment, I have every intelligence and police network in the world focusing on capturing me. The niceties tend to fall away.<\/p>\n

Ted: But if we were to meet at a cocktail party, I would find you charming?<\/p>\n

Renn: At a cocktail party, you would find me near the piano, concentrating on the music.<\/p>\n

Ted: You\u2019re a music lover?<\/p>\n

Renn: If my other choice is listening to the thoughts of everyone at a cocktail party, yes, I\u2019m a music lover.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Ted: That\u2019s right, you can hear everyone\u2019s thoughts. But isn\u2019t that a useful skill?<\/p>\n

Renn: If your purpose is to manipulate people and steal their secrets, yes.<\/p>\n

Ted: That\u2019s a bigtime business these days.<\/p>\n

Renn: That\u2019s certainly correct. Far too big.<\/p>\n

Ted: So what\u2019s the downside?<\/p>\n

Renn: We think of others as civilized beings precisely because we don\u2019t<\/em> know what they are thinking. When you hear people\u2019s real thoughts\u2014when you understand the confusion, anger and fear that drive them\u2014it\u2019s hard to be very hopeful. I’ll admit, Kate tells me I\u2019m a pessimist.<\/p>\n

Ted: Ya think? Is that why you were living in the Everglades when all this began?<\/p>\n

Renn: it\u2019s peaceful there. Alligators and pythons are disagreeable but they don\u2019t have stressful thoughts. And no guile. I\u2019ll take them over people most of the time.<\/p>\n

Ted: But Greg and Kate are your friends. Dave Monaghan was your friend.<\/p>\n

Renn: Dave knew who I was and asked nothing of me. That made him unique in my life. Greg is a brave man, a soldier. I admire him. He remembers almost nothing, most of what he remembers comes to him as nightmares. He has seen the dark side of the world. He doesn\u2019t deny it but prefers to see the bright. That\u2019s bravery to me. Kate\u2026is Kate. She is like me, she knows people\u2019s thoughts, though she\u2019s fortunate in that she can turn them off if she wants to. She\u2026understands me as well as anyone can.<\/p>\n

Ted: That sounds like a good thing.<\/p>\n

Renn: It should be.<\/p>\n

Ted: You seem uncomfortable with the subject.<\/p>\n

Renn: I\u2019m not.<\/p>\n

Ted: It didn\u2019t seem to bother you that the world\u2019s cops and spies are after you but she makes you nervous.<\/p>\n

Renn: She\u2019s a woman.<\/p>\n

Ted: You don\u2019t like women?<\/p>\n

Renn: I\u2019m a man. I long for them. But longing is dangerous. Women get under your skin. You\u2019re telling me you don\u2019t know what this is like?<\/p>\n

Ted: No, I\u2019m not saying that.<\/p>\n

Renn: Ah yes, I see you have your own problems\u2026<\/p>\n

Ted: Well, thank you for the interview. I wrote the book, by the way. I made you up out of nothing.<\/p>\n

Renn: Right. Which is why you\u2019re interviewing me. And why you\u2019re annoyed I\u2019m getting the better of you.<\/p>\n

Ted: I\u2019m not\u2026<\/p>\n

Renn: I\u2019m quite willing to continue. We can talk at length about your relationship issues\u2026<\/p>\n

Ted: I don\u2019t have any issues. I\u2019m just emotional.<\/p>\n

Renn: I see a hole there that isn\u2019t going away anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Ted: Something you should know something about.<\/p>\n

Renn: True. We have this in common.<\/p>\n

Ted: I know. I wrote that scene. I wrote the damn book.<\/p>\n

Renn: Alright, have it your way. Enjoy your illusions. While you can.<\/p>\n

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