I'm currently reading the thriller Remote Control by Andy McNab. He's ex-SAS, and writes from experience. All the little matter-of fact details really make it, the things you'd only know to write because you've been there and done that.
Brilliant stuff, but a little discouraging. How can an Australian ex-cattle farming computer programmer hope to ever compete with a guy who really has done black ops around the world?
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Maybe you could have your MC program some mechanical cows to trample the bad guy/gal to death?
Heh. I'd be in the same sort of boat if I were writing a thriller.
'Hands up, or I'll analyse your intonation patterns!'
Or you could read some Chris Ryan: did it all at the same time as McNab and can't write to save his life :)
If nothing else, it will prove that all the inside knowledge in the world won't help if you can't string words together in the right order.....
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