Simon Gervais: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Simon Gervais is bestselling author, a veteran of the Canadian military, and a retired federal agent with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police specializing in counter-surveillance, drug investigation, and anti-terrorism. Before retiring to focus on writing full-time, Simon received extensive training in advanced reconnaissance and small-unit tactics in the military where he served as an infantry officer and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
During his time as a federal agent, he worked alongside the American DEA deploying to the Middle East and Europe, conducted classified anti-terrorism operations, and eventually became a close-protection specialist where he served on the protection details for high profile figures including President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II. Today, Simon is a bestselling author. His latest novel, The Last Protector, is on shelves now!
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books with me, Jack Carr. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an Ironclad original presented by Six Hours. |
| 0:21.4 | My guest today is my friend Simon Jervé. |
| 0:24.2 | Simon is an author of the Mike Walton series, The Pierce Hunt series, and now the Clayton |
| 0:29.9 | White series, which is right here, comes out November 1st, the last protector. |
| 0:36.0 | Simon's such a great guy. |
| 0:37.0 | I was so fired up to have him on my podcast. |
| 0:39.7 | He's a former officer in the Canadian military. |
| 0:43.2 | Then he went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, where he did drug operations. |
| 0:48.5 | Then he went to their version of HRT, the hostage rescue team. |
| 0:54.1 | He did their Air Martial Program, their close personal protection, executive protection, |
| 0:59.2 | secret service type of a program. |
| 1:01.5 | Then went to a very secretive unit that was focused on counterintelligence and surveillance. |
| 1:08.8 | He brings all that knowledge, all that experience, all that wisdom to the pages of his novels. |
| 1:15.1 | Such a great guy, super fired up to be able to talk to him. |
| 1:18.1 | And now, without further ado, Simon Jervé. |
| 1:21.6 | Let's just jump right in. |
| 1:25.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, I mean, it's time when I'm so excited to talk to you because without a podcast, we |
| 1:30.5 | probably would just be running around just texting each other, you know, every now and |
| 1:33.9 | again and all that sort of thing. |
| 1:35.9 | But that's my favorite part of doing this is being able to sit down and just turn all |
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