We’ve seen just a lack of accountability, really, from Vietnam onward in our senior levels of government and senior-level military leadership. “Every (book) has had this theme where either I have to directly tie it to that theme, or indirectly tie everything back to that theme. “Every book has a theme, and I find that really helps to keep me on track,” Carr said. As for the consequences, anyone getting in the son’s way suffers them, even if they are doled out years later. Reece spends a good deal of the time reflecting on an old letter from his father and seeking the answers that will lead to the truth behind the mystery Thomas Reece sought to solve. In Only the Dead, the theme is truth and consequences.

So, for me, all my heart and soul has to go into the story.”Ĭarr has set each of his novels against a particular theme in James Reece’s life. People are trusting me with their time, and they’re never going to get that time back. If you stay true to that story, you’re not wasting bandwidth anywhere else. I didn’t start off seeing that, it just naturally happened as I wrote. “It took 139,000 words to get there, which happens to be my longest novel, but I didn’t start out that way. “I didn’t start off to write the most brutal novel to date, nor did I start out to write my longest novel to date,” Carr said in an interview from his home in Utah.

It is the longest thriller in the series for Carr, himself a former Navy SEAL and Special Operations Commander, and admittedly his most brutal. In Only the Dead, Reece faces a high-level international conspiracy to weaken the United States by setting off a nuclear device, while trying to unravel the secrets his father chased decades ago. PARK CITY, UT (WECT) - New York Times best-selling author Jack Carr has brought former Navy SEAL turned CIA operative James Reece back for a sixth adventure.

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