I just finished Admiral McRaven's

Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice

Very interesting study/analysis of eight special operations raids. It is very informative and in-depth.

https://www.amazon.com/Spec-Op...gid=pla-454100519486

Shattered Sword by Jon Parshall and Anthony Tully. I can't believe I didn't discover it sooner. Couldn't put it down. Now I want to find The First Team by John Lundstrom

Finished the "A. American" series last month, left me with no unread books.

Thinking of starting the Mountain Man series.

Serpico. The guy who was a NYPD cop and uncovered massive extortion on the part of virtually every cop he worked with.

I'm a huge Bernard Cornwall fan: you know, Sharpe, The Last Kingdom, many more novels of historical fiction from Stonehenge through King Arthur to the Saxon Chronicles to Agincourt to the US Civil War.
Having read all of those, I decided to play a winner, and started reading his modern-time "sailing thrillers".

Since I'm also a big fan of books on sail, but not a sailor myself, I will leave it to others to judge the accuracy of his sailing descriptions, which to me seem astounding. And I will quibble that he has invented a woman's name which should be "Nadezhda" but is not; and that he doesn't know how to work a 1911.
But as a storyteller, especially of thrillers, I would have to say there is no better.
I've finished the first two, Scoundrel and Wildtrack, and will finish the series. Unlike his other series, these are unconnected stories--well, except for the sailing, of course.

Finished Faster last night.
Non-fiction retelling of Delahaye/Rene Dreyfus' fight against the Nazi-backed Mercedes & Auto Union in the 30s

Well written, IMO, and kept me hooked.

I think I have Senna Versus Prost: Malcolm Folley queued up next, then I'll be on the hunt to expand my motorsports library.

The Plague, Albert Camus. 1947 novel about a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. Every other book, some sort of classic. Next, Dave Grohl; The Storyteller , and after, Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham.

About to finish up "The Road To Serfdom" by F. A. Hayek.

For a book written during WWII, it is eerily predictive of some of our current events.

The latest book in the Jack Reacher series.

Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

Have always known about it, having lived in Florida for more than 40 years, but never bothered to pick it up. Now I have, it’s good! A very pleasant walk down “old Florida” lane.

American Marxism by Mark Liven.

The morning star by pierce brown. Third book of the red rising trillogy.

I recently finished "The Split" by Kurt Schlichter. This is the latest and book 6 in his Kelly Turnbull series.
For those unfamiliar, the premise is that in the near future the U.S. has a civil war which divides the nation in two. What's left of the old U.S. and the newly formed People's Republic. The U.S. is conservative. The People's Republic is ultra liberal.
Turnbull is a U.S. operative who often finds himself in enemy territory on various adventures. Its fast paced and exciting reading. But mostly its a very interesting study of what could happen in an ultra liberal society. I highly recommend them.

The Mosin-Nagant Rifle by Terence Lapin.

PC

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Originally posted by jaaron11:
Foundation by Asimov is my current read.

I've been on a bit of a sci-fi classics kick lately.
- Starship Troopers by Heinlein
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by PKD
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Adams
- Game of Thrones by Martin
- Lots of short stories by PKD

Probably read Hyperion next. I read voraciously growing up, but never got into science fiction for whatever reason. Making up for lost time now.

well you are off to ta good start,

just a suggestion, but be sure to read the rest of the Adams' books, Hitchhiker's Guide is just a start,


read more Heinlein,

and get some Larry Niven,

I'm wading through Bloody Streets: The Soviet Assault on Berlin, April 1945 with the separate map book. Hardcover. I've already read three other books on this topic, but this is the definitive mac-daddy account. I've been fascinated with the fall of Berlin and last frenetic days of the Third Reich for quite some time. For some reason.

Vince Flynn (1966-2013) wrote 13 books about a gov't assassin named Mitch Rapp. I'm on book 6. These are very good reads. Rapp seems like a real person - who despises terrorism.

I just finished Retired Admiral William McRaven's Sea Stories - My Life In Special Operations.

It is an excellent book. Communists never change, which means it's always timely.

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Originally posted by joel9507:
About to finish up "The Road To Serfdom" by F. A. Hayek.

For a book written during WWII, it is eerily predictive of some of our current events.

Calico Joe by John Grisham.