True Believer: Jack Carr

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The omissions makes the story more believable. It did or could have really happened. Considering how crazy the action is in the first book and show I’m now wondering … could someone in the military actually pull off each one of those tactically wildly sometimes unbelievable missions?

Those are exactly the questions I’m exploring through what I like to call a story of violent redemption in True Believer,” Carr says. “James Reece needs to learn to live again. He needs a mission. He needs purpose. Finding that purpose will determine whether he lives or dies. As far as being a hero or fanatic, that will be up to the reader to decide.”

All this congestion must have slowed them down, he thought as he dialed a number on his phone per his instructions and waited impatiently for an answer. In 1876, professor Edward Cope takes a group of students to the unforgiving American West to hunt for dinosaur fossils, and they make a tremendous discovery. Carr's second effort is a well-crafted thriller with timely reflections on the increasingly complicated world of international terrorism. I started writing TRUE BELIEVER soon after I retired from the military in 2016, before I had even submitted The Terminal List to the publisher. I started writing it while I was still finishing up edits on the first novel prior to submission because I knew that I would always write at least two books. I went to Mozambique where I researched the first part of TRUE BELIEVER where James Reece learns to live. There are too many instances where authors’ first works don’t hit but they keep going. If John Grisham had stopped after writing A Time To Kill, we would never have had the pleasure of reading The Firm, The Pelican Brief, or The Client, and he’d still be practicing law. When Reece figured he had reached the point where his prowess on the pitch had earned him some time with the team captain, he decided to pry. At one of the famed rugby team parties at Raife’s off-campus house, Reece made his approach.

Borrowing what audio are available from the library. Using audible tokens for the others. Ray Porter does a wonderful job adjusting his voice for various characters. Adding to the action.For me, listening to this adds to the literary action. Adding a faster audio speed vibes intensity. Feels like I’m reading at a sprint through the bullets and explosions. Stephen King books have similar impact ramped up. So how does one carry on and push forward after that kind of tragedy—and does this make Reece a hero or a fanatic? Now, Reece is a broken man. Still dealing with a tumor that’s spidered its way into his brain, James finds himself alone on Bitter Harvest, a forty-eight-foot Beneteau Oceanis, bobbing his way across the Atlantic Ocean. Struggling to cope with everything that’s happened over the past several months, Reece stays off the grid, makes peace with his medical diagnosis, and spends the next four months slowly making his way to Mozambique, Africa, where he’s taken in by Rich Hastings, the uncle of James’ estranged best friend and former SEAL teammate, who runs a Safaris camp near Niassa. Periodically this story skips, “redacted”. Looked up why this occurs. Suspecting as a former soldier the author left in the government edits prior to publication for impact.

With a particular line in authentic tradecraft, this fabulously unrelenting thrill-ride was a struggle to put down' Mark DawsonGreat second book of the series where James Reece fully redeems himself in the eyes of the US Government by helping them thwart an evil mastermind bent on world domination. In this book, Carr delves deeper into who Reece is by taking us onto his escape voyage by yacht and his time on a game ranch in Mozambique where he sets up an anti-poaching unit. He also introduces us to a rich new cast of characters on his missions, and all of them adds value to the series, I especially like Raife Hastings and look forward to reading more of him in the next books hopefully. Your mother was, and still is, a librarian, so you grew up around books, and you became the real-life version of the heroes in those books. How did you make the transition to writing? Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.

His closest friend had recently come through when Reece needed him most, aiding Reece’s escape from New York and inserting him on his over-the-beach mission onto Fishers Island to kill the last conspirators on his list. Raife Hastings hadn’t hesitated when Reece requested assistance, risking everything for his former teammate without asking for anything in return. I want to thank David Brown and Simon & Schuster press for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review.So what do you say? Do you want to be in on taking down some bad guys? Remember and this is very important, always let James Reece go through the door first, but be right on his six. So powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written—rarely do you read a debut novel this damn good’ Brad Thor On the battlefield if you stagnate and get complacent, you die. My goal with everything I pursue in life is to devote the time, energy, and effort toward the journey in a way that will allow for marked improvement. I have always loved reading and writing and will continue to hone my craft as I move forward. That’s what life is all about. It’s difficult not to fall for a guy who serves the nation who’s lost his family and betrayed by his country with a brain tumor that was a result of unauthorized tests. It’s something my dad gave me before I drove down. ‘Three Ships,’ it’s called. From South Africa. I don’t think you can get it here.