The Eyes of Others
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Boston’s team in Iraq was based loosely on some of the men and women I met while training at Fort Jackson, S.C. There was no shortage of personality in that group, and it was an honor to take some of their antics and character traits and incorporate them into the fictional figures in this novel.
The most memorable of that group is Louisiana, loosely based off of Kenneth, a friend of mine currently serving with the 101st Airborne at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He’s a great NCO and has one of the best senses of humor of anyone I have met in uniform. He is getting close to retirement now, so thank you for your service, Ken.
This book tends to take a negative viewpoint of our nation’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies, namely the FBI and DIA. As with all the men and women who serve our nation in the armed forces and our federal agencies, there are both the good and the bad. Not all of them are careerists like Colby or exercise as much cutthroat ambition as Garrett did. Many of them are great people just doing whatever they can to keep the American people safe from threats.
Much of the description of brain waves, how dreaming works, and techniques for dream recollection and lucid dreaming were well researched and are fundamentally accurate. To my knowledge, there has never been any instances of someone being able to access another’s memories. The mind is still a frontier in that we are only scratching the surface in our understanding how it works and what we are capable of doing as human beings.
Knowing that, I endeavored to deliver a plausible scenario where Boston was able to do this and a reasonable theory as to how. As a nod to the changing understanding our medical professionals are often faced with, it was written that Tara was incorrect in elements of her early theory. Maybe someday we will know if the paranormal ability Boston had is feasible, but in the meantime, I hope I provided enough to make for an interesting story.
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About the Author
Mikael Carlson is the award-winning author of the novel, The iCandidate and the Michael Bennit Series. This is his fifth novel.
A retired veteran of the Rhode Island Army National Guard and Unites States Army, he deployed twice in support of military operations during the Global War on Terror. Mikael has served in the field artillery, infantry, and in support of special operations units during his career on active duty at Fort Bragg and in the Army National Guard.
A proud U.S. Army Paratrooper, he conducted over fifty airborne operations following the completion of jump school at Fort Benning in 1998. Since then, he has trained with the militaries of countless foreign nations.
Academically, Mikael has earned a Master of Arts in American History, and graduated with a B.S. in International Business from Marist College in 1996.
He was raised in New Milford, Connecticut and currently lives in nearby Danbury.
Governments are gone. There are no borders. Militaries cease to exist. There is no hope. All that remains is your job, and your life depends on raising the stock price of…
America, Inc.
–First Book in The Black Swan Series–
Coming Late Fall 2015
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