Fiction authors with real experience.

[Warped Mindless]

I like fiction with realistic action, tactics, and firearms.

Reccomend me some fiction authors who have some actual combat experience please!

So far I have read books by:

Dalton Fury (Delta)
Jeff Kirkman (SF)
John Chappy Chapman (Swat)
Jack Carr (Seal)
Marcus Wynne (Air Marshall & Contractor)
Orlando Wilson (Executive Protection)
Max Velocity (British SpecOps)
Robert Lewis (SF)
Brad Taylor (Delta)

I love nonfiction but am taking a break from it for a few weeks and want some more good fiction.

Thanks!

[TheNewbie]

I am more of a non fiction guy, and just have too much of it to read to add anything else.


In the past I did read a lot of fiction.


Jeff Struecker wrote a couple of books I enjoyed. If I remember right they were about Army SF. While they had a religious tone, I think they could be enjoyed by all.

Jeff Struecker is a former Army Ranger who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu. Later he became an Army Chaplin.

[awp_101]

If you're into sci-fi and mercenaries, the Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake who is a VN vet.

[Newbie]

Richard Marcinko

[Cory]

I mostly read non-fiction at this point.

I believe Aaron Cowan from Sage Dynamics writes fiction.I haven't read any of it, but if I was looking for detail oriented fiction I'd check out his books.

-Cory

[DG12]

Jason Kasper

J T Patten

[Drang]

If you're into sci-fi and mercenaries, the Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake who is a VN vet.

As was Joe Haldeman.

Jerry Pournelle and Gene Wolff were Korean vets.

Cyril Kornbluth eventually died of wounds from the Battle of the Bulge; Randall Garret was a Marine in the Pacific Theater.

Murray Leinster was a WWI vet. (Although I cannot verify that he even deployed.)

[Eyesquared]

I am a big fan of The Dying Place by David Maurer, a MACV-SOG guy with CCN during the Vietnam War. It is very well written and deserves to be much better known. I feel it is significantly better than Matterhorn, for instance.

We Few by Nick Brokhausen is a memoir of his time with MACV-SOG, but stylistically it's basically a novel that just happens to be true. Also a great book that deserved more attention than it has got.

[HCM]

JRR Tolkien. He was an infantry officer on the western front in WWI.

Substitute the weapons and substitute Orcs for the Germans and you see why his action / fight stuff was so good.

Gerald Petievich - retired US Secret Service Agent - wrote several crime noir books made into 80s action movies including To Live and Die in LA and Passenger 57.

[Arbninftry]

Ernest Hemingway fought in WWI and also spied a little for WWII