Trey Gowdy had planned to spend last week promoting his new book, a crime novel that draws from the career he had as a prosecutor in South Carolina before serving four terms in Congress.
That plan was upended by a real crime nearly 2,000 miles away, the shooting of Charlie Kirk on a university campus in Orem. A novel with the title "The Color of Death" suddenly became more difficult to promote, but Gowdy is not at all bothered by that.
"That is the last thing on my mind," he said Thursday. "I can write another book, but you only have one life."
In two interviews with the Deseret News — one before Kirk's assassination, one after — the former federal prosecutor talked about his impressions of the case against Tyler Robinson, the southern Utah man accused of killing Kirk; the challenge that lies before the prosecution and jury, and what he thought about that fiery exchange between Patel and Sen. Adam Schiff this week. He also explores why he wrote a fiction book that is heavy on crime but has "not one stitch" of politics in it.
