With the looming holiday, we posted this week’s Between the Covers podcasts a little early. Today’s is with Brad Thor, the best-selling writer of thrillers. His new novel is The Apostle, which takes place largely in Afghanistan. Americans are good guys and al-Qaeda terrorists are bad guys — you know, elements that never would make it into a movie from Hollywood. I’ve long thought that if a studio wants to sell tickets rather than score ideological points, it should film a gritty Black Hawk Down-like treatment of Marines in Fallujah. Interestingly, the book-publishing industry has shown no such reluctance, even though it, too, is full of liberals. Authors such as Brad Thor and Vince Flynn are becoming the Tom Clancys of our time. Publishers are putting out their books and readers are buying them in droves. Moviemakers should think about the market opportunity they’re currently missing. Now that the moratorium on patriotism is presumably over, wouldn’t a book by one of these authors make a great film?