AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH USA TODAY AND AWARD AUTHOR, HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN First, congratulations on the success of your newest Thriller The First to Lie, which released just this last August. Publishers Weekly hails this as “Stellar” and claims you could “win a sixth Agatha with this one,” while Sarah Pekkanen says, “book clubs will gobble it up.” What was the most exciting moment for you personally in releasing The First to Lie, your twelfth Thriller? Well, in any circumstance, it’s always crazy-chaotic to release a book-exciting, and terrifying, and wonderful, and life-changing. This was the first time, however, I have released a book in a pandemic, and, as it 6