While on a road trip late last year, I had lunch in the NH town where Mr. Ayoob worked. This caused me to reflect on the profound effect his writing has had on me and on the way I think about police work, personal protection, and the law. Thank you.
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While on a road trip late last year, I had lunch in the NH town where Mr. Ayoob worked. This caused me to reflect on the profound effect his writing has had on me and on the way I think about police work, personal protection, and the law. Thank you.
Heh. I've pestered him about that too. That book got accidentally thrown away at a picnic while I was in the middle of first reading it back in '95 and I had my friends turn around and drive back to Piedmont Park so I could fish it out of the trash can and dab the salsa off the cover. :D
I took ayoobs LFI-1 back in 92? With my girlfriend. I enjoyed it. She called it the worse vacation she ever had. We didn't last.
Mas is smarter these day, he has folks write his books for him:
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I was there when he asked Craig to contribute. I'm really looking forward to that book a lot. But I already told Mas that this book is NOT a substitute for a new edition of "Truth". He looked at me kindly and laughed. I am pretty sure that was a very nice way to tell me to piss off.
Somehow I missed this thread. Bumping to say that the Mas book under duscussion had a major impact on my me during my high school/college student years as well. I can still see my old copy of "truth" in the small shelf built into my nightstand, along with a handful of other seminal books kept close to hand. The first multi-day shooting course I ever took was LFI-1, in Coeur d'Alene, ID, back in 95 or so, and I've still got the training bug to this day. I'm a fan.
I read, "Stressfire," (1&2) and also, "In the Gravest Extreme," and those sent me further down the path, as a young man.
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I wish more of his older works were available as ebooks, either Kindle or .pdfs.
I still have my copy, bought in 1984... along with a copy of "In the Gravest Extreme" that I bought with it. One of his recommendations for getting started was a Colt Detective Special as a concealed weapon, so I haunted a few gun shows in Rapides Parish until I found one... I still have that pistol, too ;-)