This is the Danger Close Podcast.

Beyond the Books with me, Jack Carr.

Welcome to the Danger Close podcast, an Ironclad original, presented by Navy Federal Credit Union.

Today is a listener Q&A. So if you're not following Danger Close podcast on Instagram,

that is where we usually get these questions from. So follow Dangerclose podcast on Instagram,

and every now and again we'll throw up a listener question post and you can submit your

questions right there. With your affinity for Magnum P.I. Should we picture Tom Selleck as Thomas

Reese? Ah, maybe, maybe. Good catch. Good catch. Here's another one. I know you've said you always wanted to be a seal and a writer. You never seem to blur lines, meaning whatever your job is, then that's your focus. While you were a seal, did you ever write a short story or something of the sort? You may one day print or share. I did not. I continued reading,

of course, studying warfare. That's what I've always done my entire life. So anything new that

was coming out on the academic side of the house or on a lessons learned after action review

side of the house, I would read because that's what I thought that I owed my

profession. That's what I owed the guys to my right and left, owed those who I was leading into combat,

what I owed the mission, the country, what I owed those guys' families that I was taking downrange.

So always studying warfare, terrorism, insurgency, counterinsurgencies, and always reading.

I'm a lifelong reader, so I was always reading thrillers, and that really gave me that

foundation. So having all those thrillers that I read growing up and continued to read while I was in

the military and reading all that nonfiction that I read growing up and continued to read while I was in the military and then the

experiences of course in Iraq and Afghanistan all came together at the right time

in place as I started writing that first novel so all of those things continue to

contribute to what I'm doing today so I continue to build on that foundation

let's see here if a sniper or seal who has

never hunted deer or other game would go hunting, would they be inherently successful? Do those

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