Who remembers?

I posted this photo just after the Taliban took control of Kabul in August 2021. In the copy for the post, I wrote that I couldn’t recall who took it but that someone had given it to me in Afghanistan in 2003. I’ve kept the photo all these years. In the post I said that in 2003 I

Thank you for the kind and thoughtful review 🙏 ⁦Chris Miller*BTB*Nukes*⁩ ⁦Best Thriller Books⁩ bestthrillerbooks.com/chris-miller/t…

On September 1, 2004, at School Number One in Beslan, Russia, one of the most horrific terrorist attacks of the modern era began to unfold. As parents dropped their children off for the first day of classes, over thirty Chechen terrorists seized control of the school, firing AKs

The collaboration Field Watch with Ares Watch Company is available now! Ares Watch Company is owned and operated by Matt Graham, former police officer, U.S.Air Marshal, and firearms and tactics instructor for the Central Intelligence Agency. Find out more about him on a past

Not just a great interview of Don Bentley about his first Vince Flynn thriller CAPTURE OR KILL. Jack Carr does a fantastic job eliciting some of the best writing advice I’ve heard. One of the many gems Bentley shares with aspiring authors — if you can’t tell me where your

Happy Birthday to the legendary Steven Pressfield ! • He is the author of THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE, GATES OF FIRE, THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN, LAST OF THE AMAZONS, KILLING ROMMEL, TIDES OF WAR, THE VIRTUES OF WAR, THE PROFESSION and THE WARRIOR ETHOS, among many others. He has also

Who got out this weekend?

This month’s guest on the JACK CARR BOOK CLUB podcast is author and former U.S. Army Apache helicopter pilot Don Bentley Don Bentley • Don is the New York Times bestselling author of the Matt Drake thriller series and four books in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Jr. series. His

CHAPTER ONE of TARGETED: BEIRUT is available on the BLOG section of my website.  officialjackcarr.com/early-access-t… Check it out and let me know what you think.   BEIRUT 1983: At dawn on Sunday, October 23, 1983, a truck laden with explosives crashes into the headquarters and barracks

Great memories from doing press for THE TERMINAL LIST with Chris Pratt and Jared Shaw! Can’t wait for DARK WOLF and TRUE BELIEVER!

Today’s guest on the JACK CARR DANGER CLOSE podcast is Marine Chief Warrant Officer and Beirut Veteran Randy Gaddo. • Find our conversation and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the Jack Carr YouTube Channel. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

“Other things being equal, it is the man who shoots with his heart in his bow that hits the mark.” – Saxton Pope • Saxton Pope was born on this day in 1875. He is the author of Hunting with the Bow and Arrow, A Study of Bows and Arrows, The Medical History of Ishi, and Yahi

At 4:30am on September 5th, 1972, eight terrorists of the Black September faction of the PLO entered the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany where most of the Israeli athletes slept. Security was intentionally lax coming just 27 years following the end of WWII to showcase a new

On Sept 5th 1986, Pan Am Flight 73 landed in Karachi, Pakistan. Four men wearing Karachi airport security guard uniforms and armed with rifles, pistols, grenades and explosive belts, drove a van painted to look like an airport security vehicle to the base of the boarding stairs

Happy Birthday to George Lazenby George Lazenby who played Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 in ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE in 1969.

Happy 99th birthday to Bill Casassa! In 1944, after seventeen weeks of “Tank Destroyer” training in North Camp Hood, Texas, Bill was assigned to 638th Tank Destroyer Battalion at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma. He shipped overseas September 4, 1944, the day before his 19th birthday.

Today’s guest on the JACK CARR DANGER CLOSE Podcast is retired U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman, Chief Petty Officer, and Beirut Veteran, Don Howell. • Find our conversation and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and the Jack Carr YouTube Channel. open.spotify.com/episode/3H2CoT…

Beginning on September 6th, 1970, terrorists of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine initiated a series of coordinated hijackings: TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt and Swissair Flight 100 from Zurich were forced to land at Dawson's Field in the desert outside of Zarqa,

What happened in the wake of what would become known as the Munich Massacre, 5 - 6 September 1972, a terrorist attack that resulted in the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes, 1 West German police officer and 5 of the 8 terrorists? The 3 surviving terrorists of the Black September