Simple fear ....... he can't get that bunny out of his mind.
I myself am seriously starting to wonder if Carter even does write these books, as opposed to having them ghosted. (Or if he has even read any of them!)
Actually writing a book -- the writing, the research, the organization, the proofing, etc. etc. -- takes time, even with a stenographer.
Yet here he is, a regular gadabout flying all over the world for whoknowswhat and yet these books of his dropping into bookstores like apples out of a tree -- **boom** here's one...**boom** here's another...What are we talking about? Something like 13+ books in as many years, or less? Who is this guy? Barbara Cortland or something?
NOW you have planted the mental picture of Dershewitz dressed up like like Ralphie, in A Christmas Story.
LOLOLOL
:~)