Jack Carr

So this is another offering outside the James Reese terminalist universe.

And I'm just, I'm fired up with how it, how it came out.

And for those who are fans of, let's say a pale rider or a Shane or a high plains drifter or a magnificent seven, there'll be little drops of that in there too, but it's my modern interpretation.

stranger comes to town narrative.

Right.

Right.

So James Reese Terminalist series, those books started well before our departure from Afghanistan.

So that's not part of James Reese's experience.

Chris Walker, a little younger.

He's there.

He's a former SEAL, but now he's in the CIA and he's in Afghanistan as we're starting to withdraw.

And the CIA wants to leave an asset behind that they've recruited to report on what happens after we're gone.

and chris walker and his his buddy john stobb they know that this guy is going to get killed his family is going to get killed he's too associated with the americans so they go off the books and try to get him across the border into pakistan so he can get to islamabad and claim asylum and of course that goes horribly wrong and this isn't too much of a spoiler but chris walker's best friend is is killed in that uh in that attempt to get their asset across the border here but

Watching that, and you don't have to be a veteran of Iraq or Afghanistan to be horrified with the way that we left Afghanistan in August of 2021.

No, you don't.

And neither do you have to have any sort of touch points with the military or degrees in military history.

You don't need to have studied tactics or strategy to know that there was a better way to go about.

All you have to do is apply context.

common sense and apply logic to that problem set.

And anyone could have done it so much better if they had just done that.