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Meet the sig
The Sig Sauer 226 is the standard weapon of the AFOSI (Cooper’s unit). It’s weighty at 34 ounces when loaded with 13 rounds of 9mm ball (12 in the mag and one in the chamber), but Cooper likes it because the weight of it reminds him of the Colt .45, his favourite handgun.
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You don’t mess with a Ranger
The Texas Rangers is a 144-man team that represents the pinnacle of Texas Law enforcement. “You don’t mess with a Ranger” was something I heard time and again when I was in Texas recently, researching STANDOFF (2012).
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Don’t leave home without one
Hanging out with US Army, Air Force, Navy or law enforcement types can get very expensive if you don’t have one of these in your pocket. They’re bar coins. If you’re at a bar and someone produces their unit bar coin and you can’t match it with one of your own, the drinks are on you, sucker.
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Trial of Midnight Rider. A documentary film.
It happened on February 20, 2014, on a railway trestle way down in Wayne County, South Georgia, USA. A train ploughed into a film crew shooting a scene on railroad tracks for a biopic about Greg Allman of the iconic band the Allman Brothers. Sarah Jones, a 27-year-old camera assistant, was struck and killed by the locomotive. The film’s director, Randall Miller, was subsequently charged with criminal trespass and involuntary manslaughter.
Podcast with moi
I can’t remember doing this podcast, which is a concern. I was either drunk or have Alzheimers. I do hope I haven’t slagged anyone off. Unless it’s one of the top three – Hitler, Stalin, Trump…
The Lost Second Book
It’s prophetic, right? The legion marches off into the desert never to be seen again, and maybe ends up fighting in China. And then I go and write a trilogy about this lost legion and the second book just, like, disappears…. Wow, it’s a plot for something else entirely, perhaps. Author writes novel only to have it swallowed by the mists of time. How can a book just, you know, vanish?
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Marcus Licinius Crassus’s lust for gold and glory was legendary. What became of his army is myth.
In Crassus the tyrant, Rufinius the soldier, Appius the historian, Mena the hag and Lucia the Golden Whore, David Rollins brings to life a mystery that has plagued historians for centuries. Field of Mars coverThe only constant in this world is Mars, the god of war, and who he will favour is anyone’s guess.
Sometime before dawn, mystery assailants shoot dead 27 people at Horizon Airport, a...
Vin Cooper is hunting for a kidnap victim. The CIA is hunting for a missing nuclear...
Special Agent Vin Cooper is feeling reckless, so he volunteers for the dumbest and most dangerous job going: personal security operations in Afghanistan protecting bent politicians. But when his principal is killed in a suicide bomb attack, Cooper is reassigned to a cushy job nursing a couple of needy African-American entertainers putting on a show for US military advisors at a secret base in Rwanda…
“Halfway between a Jerry Bruckheimer mega-spectacle and one of those frightfully clever...
When the US Attaché to Turkey, Colonel Emmet Portman, is found butchered in his Istanbul residence, Special Agents Vin Cooper and Anna Masters are sent to investigate. Within days of their arrival, Portman’s associates begin to die gruesomely. There’s a serial killer at large.
…totally gut wrenching. A Knife Edge is yet another completely engrossing thriller by...
Conspiracy aficionados are going to love Australian author Rollins’s thriller…the book...
‘…lots of past-paced action…but with the chilling ring of truth.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘…a...
‘Shrieks across the page like a scramjet and hits home like a small nuke…’ John...