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Jack Carr is an author and former Navy SEAL. He lives with his wife and three children in Park City, Utah. He is the author of The Terminal List, True Believer and Savage Son (just published by Atria). He's on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook at @JackCarrUSA.
On your nightstand now:
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations by Ronen Bergman
Favorite book when you were a child:
I loved My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George.
Your top five authors:
Anton Myrer
Ayn Rand
Herman Wouk
David Morrell
Stephen Hunter
Book you've faked reading:
Never! A cardinal sin....
Book you're an evangelist for:
Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer.
Book you've bought for the cover:
I do this all the time. I'm always adding to my library based on all sorts of criteria.
Book you hid from your parents:
My mom was not a fan of my Mack Bolan collection.
Book that changed your life:
The Brotherhood of the Rose by David Morrell. It cemented me on my path into the SEAL Teams and also confirmed that I would one day do exactly what I'm doing now.
Favorite line from a book:
It is advice on character that a wise Sam Damon passes along to his son in Anton Myrer's Once an Eagle. He says, "You can't help what you were born and you may not have much to say about where you die, but you can and you should try to pass the days in between as a good man."
Five books you'll never part with:
I never part with books, hence the stacks of books in my office, but if pressed I'd say:
1. Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer, inscribed with wise advice from a Project Delta Vietnam sniper who is a mentor of mine.
2. Baa Baa Black Sheep by Greg "Pappy" Boyington, signed by the author when I met him in 1987.
3. The paperback copy of Term Limits by Vince Flynn that I read on the way to Afghanistan in 2003.
4 & 5. My original paperback copies of Centrifuge by J.C. Pollock and Oni by Marc Olden from the mid-'80s.
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
This is a tough one. It happens to me often. The most recent instance was The Son by Philipp Meyer, but another I wanted to keep going was One Second After by William R. Forstchen.