There has been a lot of interest among filmmakers in The ThirdMan Factor, with this good news just announced by my literary agentPatrick Walsh:

John Geiger’s extraordinary and completely originalscientific account of THE THIRD MAN FACTOR - a syndrome in whichpeople at the very edge of death will often experience a sense ofan incorporeal being beside them, encouraging them to make one lasteffort to survive – has just been optioned by Akiva Goldsman,the screenwriter of THE DA VINCI CODE and A BEAUTIFUL MIND, fordevelopment as a possible television drama series through WeedRoad, Goldsman’s production company, at Warner.