Books

Notes from this okayish book. Rated highly. I think four stars is ok. One tidbit - Royal Thai Police officers are not issued firearms and end up have to spend their own money on buying them. Consequently, they know their equipment and go for value. Couple of good lessons - how do you plan for such ops? You can't - but you can prepare - in your mind, if you know how. You want one of your associates to give up his friend (till now, he's protested that he'll only cooperate if his friend has immunity). What do you do? You catch the friend on tape saying something that your associate will resent. How do you get the other guy to trust you? You pretend not to trust him. You want him to believe you're a bad guy who wants to buy weapons for no good reason. You make him earn your trust. Mike Snow  - pilot - arms drop flights - the  bear - an ex SAS solder. When Congolese soldiers needed to take to their heels, they rip off their boots so they can really run - so you see a huge pi...