But this time around, Webb, who has also written numerous motivational books (like Total Focus), manages something truly extraordinary. The Killing School, for example, is phenomenal. Then you have the Chris Kyles and Marcus Luttrells of the world, who detail their experiences with gripping, first-hand accounts of their time in the military.
Airborne Army Ranger and bestselling nonfiction author whose debut thriller comes out this fall), Matthew Betley (who spent ten years as a Marine officer and was trained as a scout sniper platoon commander before creating Logan West), Nick Irving (one of our nation’s deadliest snipers who just teamed with Tata on a new fiction novel), and Joshua Hood (former 82nd Airborne and author of the Mason Kane military thrillers) are just a few former servicemen who’ve taken their real-life experience and applied it to the fictional universes they’ve created. Tata (former brigadier general who now writes the Jake Mahegan series), Sean Parnell (former U.S. Recently, more than ever, real heroes are stepping into the world of fiction, trying their hands at penning thrillers.īrad Taylor (former Delta Force commander turned New York Times bestselling author), A.J. I love those characters and greatly admire the authors who created them. That’s exactly what happened when I read Mastering Fear.įollowing Mitch Rapp or Jason Bourne is great, don’t get me wrong. I’ve done it, sure, but the book has to really knock my socks off for me to step aside from the thriller genre and take the time to review it. I personally enjoy autobiographies, but it’s pretty rare I actually review a nonfiction book. When I’m not reading books for reviews or blurbs, I like to get outside the genre I cover and try something else. I read books about people who do extraordinary things, but they all have one thing in common (well, two if you count stopping nuclear attacks, because they all stop nuclear attacks at some point): they’re all fictional.
As a critic, my area of expertise is fiction - more specifically, the thriller genre, especially political, spy, and military thrillers.
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