Dead Drops, Cops, And Special Ops: The Novels Of Brad Thor
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The Real Life of Special Operations
"I want to get it right because I have non military people read the books and then I've got actual military people," he says. "The art of creative writing is knowing what to leave out." A CIA official once took a couple swings at him for not including seven cutouts between source and intelligence officer in his stories. He would include seventh and maybe an eighth or ninth cutout just to be sure that we're proper and doing things by the book. But the book that we're doing things by is not the book the public wants to read.
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