The September 2021 reading list selections are all books that relate to Afghanistan. If you are looking for a base from which to understand why we spent twenty years there and why we left the way we did, start in the pages of these selections.
Imperial Hubris: The Great Game Revisited | As we watch the U.S. Embassy evacuation in Kabul and see images of the Taliban taking control of the country, to those of us who fought there it is more than a strategic failure; it’s personal...
August 2021 Reading List Selections: Unrestricted Warfare by Col. Qiao Liang and Col. Wang Xiangsui., The Big Burn by Timothy Egan, Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell, When the Lion Feeds by Wilber Smith, Taliban by Ahmed Rashid, Reacher Said Nothing by Andy Martin
July 2021 Reading List Selections: Out of the Mountains by David Kilcullen, Time to Hunt by Stephen Hunter, Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile, Freedom by Sebastian Junger, The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield, The Bridge of San Louis Rey by Thornton Wilder
June 2021 Reading List Selections: One Second After by William R. Forstchen, Three Felonies a Day by Harvey A. Silverglate, The Gun by C.J. Chivers, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, Once An Eagle by Anton Myrer
May 2021 Reading List Selections: The Odyssey by Homer, The League of Night and Fog by David Morrell, The Pentagon’s New Map by Thomas P.M. Barnett, The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor , Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, SOG by John L. Plaster
THE DEVIL’S HAND is unleashed! Hardcover, Ebook and Audiobook are in the wild everywhere books are sold.
This month’s reading list selections consist of books I used to research THE DEVIL’S HAND. This fourth novel in the James Reece series was research intensive as I stepped into the mind of a terrorist. Does this list of books give you any additional insight into THE DEVIL’S HAND?
March 2021 Reading List Selections: The Fraternity of the Stone by David Morrell, Haunted Mesa by Louis L’Amour, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, The Iliad by Homer, Rifleman Dodd by C.S. Forester, Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager
What follows is adapted from the preface to The Devil’s Hand. It was written on September 11, 2020. Part two of two. The Devil’s Hand is about what the enemy has learned watching us on the field of battle for close to twenty years...
