What Special Ops Unit Takes Care of Things That Go Bump In The Night?
At times in Special Operations where we’d run into guys from other units and when we were alone we’d ask them if they were doing this high speed thing or that which we’d heard rumors of. And they would say they’d heard WE were doing it. Yeah. Scary. I used to wonder who was in […]
What Does a Hero do when there’s a naked woman waiting in his bed?
If you remember the scene in Don’t Look Down where JT Wilder comes into his hotel room and Althea is in his bed naked, which BTW, is the scene that convinced St Martins to go for the collaboration, this scene from Lawyers, Guns and Money sort of mirrors it. Truvey, the woman in the scene, […]
The March of Folly– How Apropos for Now
I just finished The March of Folly by Pulitzer Prize winning author Barbara Tuchman and highly recommend it. It details how humans are not only foolish, but rush into stupidity, eyes wide, ignoring all evidence to the contrary. She spans history with her examples and one can get bogged down in her obvious extensive research, […]
What Can We Learn From Disasters? FREE Today
My wife and I were watching Seconds From Disaster, a TV series that focuses mainly on plane crashes and we noticed a pattern. It was always several things that caused the plane to crash, not just one. Actually, always at least seven, what I have termed, Cascade Events. Any single event by itself, even up […]
Researching Books Before the Internet
Yes, there was a time when we lived in caves, ate rocks and didn’t have an internet. Well, DARPA did, but the first Internet message was sent in 1969 and the system went down after two letters, but hey, it was a start. So, yeah, I actually wrote about that first message in a book, […]
Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Writers?
I heard that this weekend at the Writers of the Flathead Conference in Kalispell, Montana. I remember David Morrell saying the same thing at Thrillerfest several years ago. It’s a mantra. It used to worry me when I heard it, but then I realized my day job is writing, so, well. Duh. After three decades […]
Lawyers, Guns and Money publishes; New York Minute (free today only)
To celebrate the publication of Lawyers, Guns and Money today, I’ve put New York Minute for free today, 16 Sept. Also free is Burners. The pre-order for the third book in the series, coming out in December, is also live. Walk on the Wild Side. Also, today is the last day for the Off the […]
Trojan Warrior– An Attempt To Make a “Super” Soldier
When I was in 10th Special Forces, we tried a program that was called Trojan Warrior. 2 A-Teams were chosen to participate in this, while my team took all the tests, but didn’t get the training, as the measuring mark. Those teams were taught meditation, proper diet, biofeedback and more. They had sports experts come […]
Off The Grid Superstack
This is a stack of close to $700 worth of information, courses, and other material bundled together for less than $50. Yes, I purchased one because there’s a lot of good information in it. It’s available for only one week starting today, 9/10. There is definitely material in here that you will find useful. Ever […]
Nine Eleven (Time Patrol) is FREE
Nine Eleven (Time Patrol) is free until the 12th. Each of my Time Patrol books consists of six mission on the same day in different years. While the most significant 9-11 year is 2001, there is a mission that year, but it has nothing to do with events in the United States as I felt […]
Storm Surge and the Power of Water
We used to live on Hilton Head Island, along the Intracoastal Water Way. Our house was on one of the highest points of the entire island. 12 feet above sea level. Seriously. When you look at a flood map, the ENTIRE island is a flood zone. Yet, many of the people who live there don’t […]
Hurricane Dorian is Unprecedented and It’s More than just Wind
It increased from a Cat 4 to a Cat 5 in just 9 hours. It is moving very, very slowly. It’s the most powerful ever recorded to hit the islands. Even if it doesn’t make landfall in the Continental United States, storm surge is going to cause massive damage. State troopers are escorting gas tanker […]