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badgoodDeb · 03-10-2011, 12:57 AM

Hey --if anybody thinks Reacher's character is overly tough, check out "Dark Matter" by Bruce Gilkin ($9.99 at Amazon). It describes the fight through Post Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD) of a Viet Nam Special Forces vet. Man, just the 8 week training he describes is brutal, making him a honed assassin (his noun). Then there are the incidents he recounts from Nam.... Wow.

And then his psyche is expected to cope with normal life after he returns home. He describes the horrors that PTSD is too. Good book, if not thoroughly edited (helps remind me he's real and not fiction). Ought to be helpful if you interact with anybody who was over there. Or perhaps in Desert Storm, or more recent wars. Just -- wow.

03-10-2011, 12:57 AM	#72
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,555 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Hey --if anybody thinks Reacher's character is overly tough, check out "Dark Matter" by Bruce Gilkin ($9.99 at Amazon). It describes the fight through Post Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD) of a Viet Nam Special Forces vet. Man, just the 8 week training he describes is brutal, making him a honed assassin (his noun). Then there are the incidents he recounts from Nam.... Wow. And then his psyche is expected to cope with normal life after he returns home. He describes the horrors that PTSD is too. Good book, if not thoroughly edited (helps remind me he's real and not fiction). Ought to be helpful if you interact with anybody who was over there. Or perhaps in Desert Storm, or more recent wars. Just -- wow.