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In FOREIGN INFLUENCE, I introduced a new paradigm for warfare – new enemies, new weapons, and new threats to global and personal security. So, this month, I thought it would be interesting to talk with the leader of the security teams who travel with me on book tours and on research trips for each of my novels.Bob Oatman founded R.L....
THE APOSTLE opens with a quote from George Orwell: “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” Orwell was referring to women and men like my friend Jim Erwin, who served ably as a Special Operations soldier for more than a decade, and is a highly skilled sniper and counter terrorism, hostage rescue,...
Since September is national “Preparedness Month,” I wanted to interview one of the country’s top experts in the preparedness field, James Wesley, Rawles. Jim is a former U.S. Army Intelligence officer, and current preparedness author and blogger. I have said that Jim is “an amazingly gifted author who has singlehandedly reignited the post-apocalyptic thriller” and I mean it. One of my...
Gulf of Aden Indian Ocean Just off the Somali Coast Through the hazy-green of Scot Harvath’s night-vision goggles, it looked like an illusion. The infrared markers, which had been carefully laid out on the rear deck of the ship beneath him, should have been floating — rolling with the swell of the ocean — waiting for him, not racing up...
Cape Cod Massachusetts They had been in the water for less than five minutes when they saw two SUVs racing up the beach with their light bars flashing. Someone must be drowning, Harvath thought. Looking at Lara, he wondered if she was thinking the same thing too. Then he saw the expression on her face and realized the wave of painful memories that...