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jdkinman wrote:. . .

You can take a lot of liberties in fiction, but not THAT many. . .

JD

Amen to that, or the "smell of cordite" which hasn't been used in 100 years.

jdkinman wrote: . . .

His other physical encounter is in the water and trust me, even an old competitive swimmer like myself can't do karate moves in the water--that is a whole nother environment! We used to play water-polo in the off-season and you learn every dirty trick in the book and I DID employ a couple of those in the final scene.

I wasn't fast enough for the swim team, but held the school's unofficial underwater swim record for decades, thus I played water polo myself. While executing a spin pass in the El Adem Royal Air Force Base pool in Libya in 1968, I inadvertently kicked an opposing player in the mouth, knocking out two of his teeth and inflicting a multiple stitch avulsion laceration on my big toe. His traumatic extraction was so clean they were actually able to re-implant the teeth. I scored the only goal against the RAF in that rather one sided contest between the USN and them.

jdkinman wrote: . . .

The main character is a good shot, however, but gives credence to the old line of "Excuse me, how do you get to Carnegie Hall?"

"Practice, son. Practice."

My late wife, a concert level pianist in her own right, used to say that, ending with " . . . or just rent the place."

jdkinman wrote: . . .

One of my primary objectives when writing Above Reproach was to portray gun-owners as the good guys and demonstrate that there are still law enforcement folks who see gun-owners as not just the good guys, but the most integral defense against all enemies (foreign/domestic) that we have. This is displayed in the incident in Pocatello, Idaho when the cops congratulate the CHL holders who stopped a shooting before it even started.

But most of all, I just wanted to write something that was fun to read and made you feel GOOD about being a gun-owner, CHL holder and defender of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

JD

And thank you for that. I haven't even started the book yet, I have another one to finish first, but it is encouraging to look forward to having a protagonist who doesn't "Click off the safety" on his GLOCK or thing like that.

Got my (electronic) copy, now if I can figure out how to get an electronic autograph . . .