
It was music to his ears when she told him she worked in the big bookstore downtown. He and his friends had commented often that women who were somewhat bookish and liked to read were the best lays. He liked quiet girls who were not full of themselves. Best of all, she liked to read and didn’t like to prattle on like so many of the San Diego crowd. She seemed to try especially hard to look plain and homely. Special Operator Rory Kennedy figured once he got those big glasses off her and let her hair down, she’d be a beauty. H e didn’t have to be a Navy SEAL to understand Megan had a look about her that told him she’d not yet had her world rocked sufficiently. I encourage you to get involved and tell them thank you:

Wounded Warriors is the one charity I give to on a regular basis. Anything that is inaccurately portrayed is either my mistake, or done intentionally to disguise something I might have overheard over a beer or in the corner of one of the hangouts along the Coronado Strand.

These are my stories created out of my own imagination. One of my favorite homages to warriors resides on many memorials, including one I saw honoring the fallen of WWII on an island in the Pacific: They sometimes pay the ultimate price so we can debate, argue, go have coffee with friends, raise our children and see them have children of their own. Without their sacrifice, and that of their families-because a warrior’s fight always includes his or her family-I wouldn’t have the freedom and opportunity to make a living writing these stories.

I always dedicate my SEAL Brotherhood books to the brave men and women who defend our shores and keep us safe.
