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, Utah. 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.”

The host of “ Sunday Night in America With Trey Gowdy ” on Fox News, Gowdy has been watching the Kirk case unfold with particular interest, given his background as a district attorney and a federal prosecutor. He also worked with Kash

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