You’ve said that you can trace your life by the novels you were reading at the various stages of your life.

I feel like I’ve been training for this next chapter in life since my earliest days.

That foundation as a reader and student of the genre, along with my professional study of warfare, terrorism, and insurgencies, and my personal experiences on the modern battlefield as a SEAL sniper after 9/11, have given me a depth and background I can now apply to my writing. They became my first professors in the art of storytelling. Pollock, Louis L’Amour, Mark Olden, and A. Some of my fondest memories include disappearing into the pages of books by Tom Clancy, David Morrell, Nelson DeMille, J. I always knew that after my time in service I would set my sights on becoming an author and write the kind of books I loved to read growing up. How did you make the transition to writing? 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. As far as being a hero or fanatic, that will be up to the reader to decide.”Ĭurrently working on editing the third Jack Reece novel and planning his fourth, Carr took a moment to talk to The Big Thrill about his thrilling new release. Finding that purpose will determine whether he lives or dies. “James Reece needs to learn to live again. “Those are exactly the questions I’m exploring through what I like to call a story of violent redemption in True Believer,” Carr says. So how does one carry on and push forward after that kind of tragedy-and does this make Reece a hero or a fanatic? TRUE BELIEVER, the follow-up novel to Jack Carr’s award-nominated debut, Terminal List, begins with the protagonist, James Reece, at his lowest-he’s lost his family, his health, his county.

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