The Reluctant Hero

by Walter Grant

At any time a crisis can engulf us. Fires, floods, hurricanes, tornados, car accidents, crime, and disease happen at an alarming rate. The bravest and most highly trained individuals among us are our first responders. When a crisis befalls us, they run towards it. But what about those who are in the crisis? What about those who stay, and help to prevent the crisis from getting worse?
This is a story about a man who finds himself at the center of the unthinkable. What was to be the annual tradition for many Detroit Tiger fans has turned into devastation. A large scale terrorist attack occurs on Opening Day. A laid off gym teacher, named Danny, is working as a security guard at a party tent when the terrorists attack. Our hero develops before our very eyes. His instinct to save others and to save his fiancé drives him to greatness. Luck, skill, and cameras elevate him to Hero status in our viral world.
Take a journey in this action/adventure with our every man as he struggles to find meaning in a world where terrorism strikes again and again.

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 18, 2015

About the author

Walter Grant became of age in the navy during the height of the cold war. He earned his aircrew wings as a radioman and radar operator aboard long range patrol aircraft tracking soviet submarines and trawlers lying offshore near Cape Canaveral during the space racesputnik was launched on his watch. He was schooled in atomic, biological, and chemical weapons, as well as antisubmarine warfare. His crew was selected to drop and test the first nuclear depth charge. He is one of only a handful of enlisted men to have flown Mach-2. Walter flew into Cuba before and after Castros overthrow of the Batista government which led him, sometime later, to read Tragic IslandHow communism came to Cuba, and in turn The Secret World of the KGBrequired reading for the CIA. His collection of books on the cold war is extensive. Walters military career took him to a dozen countries; his fascination with the cold war took him to more than twice that many. Two weeks after the Wall came down he passed through Brandenburg Gate into East Berlin and traveled extensively in the Eastern Bloca very sobering experience."