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Was pretty good until the bagpipes started with the whole mcdougal parade.

I got my free copy in the mail today! Thanks. I have some catching up to do.

W. T. F

just not my.. cup of tea right now. Might come back to it later.

The https://www.outsideonline.com/1926591...
is worth the read if you care. It has more information and facts than the book ever pretended to.

Well, After some basic research. I think I'll give this 1 star. Due to inconsistent time line issues in the book. I'd find my self saying WTF at points where Obama, Bush and Bush Sr. were put in... out of order for events. I almost put it down then. but, like the rest of most of you I listened to the rest. I call it suspension of disbelief.

Fisher attended a summertime service at a Memphis megachurch, where he saw Jamie and Todd Smith. When the pastor wanted to recognize those who’d served in Operation Desert Storm, both brothers stood. Fisher couldn’t help but laugh that Jamie would lie about something so important. When he stared down Jamie among the flags and the hymnals, Jamie just smiled and put a finger to his lips. Shhh. 

A former deputy director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, who asked not to be named, told us he’d “never heard of any program within the DO/NCS”—the Directorate of Operations/National Security Service*—“that allowed for an undergraduate to go undercover.”

“He made it a point to inject personal stories into his training,” says Art Watts, a north Mississippi sheriff’s deputy who was hired as a trainer by SCG. “He liked to tell one about being shot with an AK-47 in the shoulder. He said he was working with a team of other spec-ops guys. There was so much bullshit injected into these stories that sometimes I showed up in them.”

Smith also says he served in the National Guard during his youth, which is true: the Guard verifies it. Smith simultaneously enrolled in an Ole Miss ROTC program and the National Guard in the fall of 1992—meaning he joined up after the time he says he was a spook—but he dropped out in 1993, at which point the Guard discharged him.
We know for sure only that he worked as a Christian karate instructor while at Regent.

“Horseshit,” says Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer and a State Department deputy director in the office on counter terrorism from 1989 to 1993. Johnson says there’s no way the CIA would have plucked a kid from Ole Miss and given him serious duties.

so..
In the wartime years after 9/11, Smith used these stories to build a small empire that he lost just as quickly when people, including his own staff, began to realize that he’d made much of it up, and that neither he nor anybody at SCG was doing much harrowing work overseas.
including his own staff? I'd like to know more. Anyone willing? Did this staff feel like they were providing a service needed?

I've enjoy this writing style. I have grown to love Kellan for all is flaws. He has been abused, disowned, manipulated... He's alone, yet the people in the story can never figure out why. REALLY?
I'm in Chapter 48 or so. I'm so upset at his self abuse in isolating him self.
He SHOULD have Strong self confidence by now. He has been alone for the last 2 years? I know some people struggle internally.. but really. LOL

YUP! I was right Chapter 8 took of like a Bottle rocket!

I've finally made it to chapter 7. I had trouble making it this far. There is so MUCH detail. I've wanted to spank Simon myself. He's and Idiot. LOL. I have HIGH hopes for this series. I made it through DUNE and Wheel of Time series. I pray, hope.. wish this one is just as awesome!

NO!!!! OMG lol Why would you do that?! gah! I hate grenades!

I reluctantly picked up this series in the middle. I skipped book 1. I might have to go back and read it.

I don't know if the speed at which this is read is intentional. It is to fast and monotone.

So far the story is good. The narrator is .. off. He speaks to fast and monotone. I'm still trying to peg down what bothers me about this reader..

That was a fun read! Thank you so much.