Use of Force

RESOURCES

I spend a lot of my time between books reading and doing research. Material ends up piled all around my office, taped to the walls, etc. Picture the movie A Beautiful Mind and you’re about halfway there.

In writing Use of Force, a few resources stand out, and I would like to share them with you:

No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer

No Hero by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer

Fearless by Eric Blehm

Beyond Repair by Charles S. Faddis

Fair Play by James M. Olson

As I mentioned in the acknowledgments, I also highly recommend the reporting of Barbie Latza Nadeau on ISIS, the Mafia, and the European refugee crisis.

Scott Onstott’s blog at secretsinplainsight.com provided fascinating information about sacred geometry and patterns of distance between major world landmarks.

Burningman.org and burners.me are excellent resources for anyone wanting to learn more about the Burning Man celebration.

For the writers out there, Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi put out a great series of books covering character expression, flaws, and attributes. If you’re looking for insight into why people do what they do, this is a great place to start.

Finally, in order to satisfy the time constraints of the novel, I took artistic liberty with the start/stop dates of the Burning Man festival and the Fête des Tuileries in Paris. In all other areas, I worked to be as accurate as possible.

Any mistakes in the novel are on me, and I take full responsibility for them.

Thank you for reading Use of Force.