Author: theirritatedprepper

Growing up in the Ozarks, David spent a great deal of his time growing up with his Grandfather, learning how to fish, hunt, and trap. Additionally, he learned many of the old skills such as how to hold a star drill (which by the way I would not do for anyone now that my Grandfather is gone), hack a rail road tie and how to make hand made shake shingles. Joining the Marine Corps (0341) at the age of 17, he enjoyed his time in the grunts, but switched over to Counterintelligence after picking up Sergeant. Staying with the USMC for just over 20 years, he retired in 1998 at the age of 38, attaining the rank of CWO-2. After retiring he has worked for a few different government agencies and as a contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still active as a contractor, he enjoys writing in what spare time he can find, with his first published book coming out in May 2019, “Lone Star Odyssey”. His second book in the series should be out late fall 2019. Living in Texas with his wife and kids, most of his time outside of work is spent with his wife and kids, their horses and dogs, and with repairs around the ranch.

Updates and General comments

I apologize that it’s been awhile since I posted. First, thanks to everyone for all the reviews and comments.

Second, the Audible for book three will be out soon. Just working out a few bugs and it will be out.

Quite a few have been asking about future books. I have a good start on book four. Should be out in July – August timeframe. No promises as I do have to still work to pay the bills, but I will finish the series. Right now the plan is book four will almost get Talon home and book five will cover him getting there and the aftermath of his arrival. After that we will see where the story goes. Much of that will depend on you, the readers.

Thank you again for all the ideas and comments. Stay safe, the world is a dangerous place and I don’t see it getting any better any time soon. While stories are fun there is the serious side of being prepared to protect our families. Take care, DKW

A conversation about freedom

I know, I should be using this time to write on book four, but I had an interesting conversation with a bartender last night. He wasn’t just any bartender, he had been a bartender at the Officers Club at a major DOD base for the last 40 years. The club was fairly empty, as are most military bars these days, but that’s a different conversation.

The subject of mass shootings came up. Our bartender made a very strong comment that he believed in the second amendment, but that no one needed an AR or AK. My colleagues immediately gave me some room as they all know that this is one of my buttons.

I gave our friendly bartender all the time he needed to state his case about these vile articles of death. Then I ask him if he had ever had the desire to pick up a gun and just go shoot a bunch of innocent strangers. He stated of course not. I then asked him why not and of course he replied that only someone crazy would do that. So I followed that up with asking him if owning an AK or AR would change his mind about that. His answer was No of course not.

I next ask him if he thought cars should be limited to less than 100 horsepower. He looked at me like I was growing horns and said no, if someone could afford to have a nice car then he didn’t have a problem with that. I asked him why does anyone need a car or motorcycle that could run a 130 mph.

As our conversation continued, I could see the light coming on and without any prompting he admitted he had never really thought the issue of AKs and ARs all the way through. The bottom line is good people don’t go out and commit crimes like mass shootings.

We see every day someone committing a horrible crime, mostly against the weak and defenseless. Our police are vilified and are more at risk from the people they are attempting to protect and are sworn to protect. They are more than likely to get sued or prosecuted than the criminals committing crimes. I’m afraid it’s going to get much worse before it gets better.

Let me know what you think. John Stuart Mill said it best, “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”

Book 3 – Choices

Book 3 will be out in paperback this weekend. Working with Steve Carlson to get the Audible version out soon.

If anyone has any comments or want to discuss any of the books or any of the information contained in the books, feel free to hit me with any questions you have.

Anyway, thanks again for everyone’s patience. Take care and be safe.

S/F. Dave

Almost There

Well here it is almost October and I’m beginning to feel like Talon. But it does look like I’m going to make it. Right now the projected date for the Kindle/paperback is Halloween and the Audible version between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I appreciate everyone’s patience and encouragement, most especially my Wife and Kids. Without their support I never would have completed the first book, let alone the third. So again, thank you, really hope you enjoy book 3,