LISTEN: Taste the 80's with Adam Richman

Brad Meltzer joined us on Maine Street to talk about his first thriller in 4 years. "Lightning Rod" centers around a threat involving the Strategic National Stockpile.

Karen Joy Fowler gives us a look at John Wilkes Booth from a different point of view: his family. In her historical novel "Booth", Fowler focuses on three members of the Booth family to give us a view of Booth through their eyes. Additionally, Fowler shares how the family dealt with Booth's actions.

You can have a pair of pears, but not a pair of scissors. Why? Read on.

Chris Brady, author of "The Bitcoin Bride", discusses how this form of currency could be used by governments in the future to avoid financial sanctions such as the ones being imposed on Russia.

Robert Mazur worked undercover to help bring down Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel. Coming out of cover he emerged with a half-million dollar price on his head. That didn't keep him from going undercover again in Panama. Mazur took time on Maine Street to share his experiences which he shares in great detail in his book "The Betrayal." Are we winning the drug war? What should we be doing in the fight that we're not? Mazur answered these and others during his time with us.