Good day Sir,
I am an Allied Forces military vet and my last position was in Geo Int and have read everything you’ve written and I want to thank you so much for it all. I could go on to say we had similar parental conflicts growing up.
I have a difficult time reading military battles or fights - but yours has a unique realism that I wonder how you get.
I was in Gaza right after Sept 11 doing VIP security and was in one very intense live fire.
I’ll tell you the fear can freeze your body and at the same instant everything slows down so so much.
Thank you so much for Sharpe and Starbuck. Having semi retired I have started writing myself and that has always been a life-long dream of mine and your text and your audiobooks have kept that dream alive in me.
I initially came on here to find what story the large hearted Harper and bird lover gets the monkey - and I found it is in Assassin.
Rifles/Waterloo and Assassin really captures their relationship - and that too seems real to me, as I have the size of Sharpe and my closest pal has that warm heart towards animals and is a true Harper. And we did fo at it at once - all the men cleared out - and we both gave better than most but he would have won - and we stopped ourselves before it was going to cost us our friendship.
Thank you again for the all the work. I have an idea in this last year how much it actually is. It’s a deep trench Sir and you are the best.
Doug.
Thank you for your message and thank you for your service!