ANNOUNCING a new novel by a writer we admire (+ Open Thread)
By SusanUnPC on December 4, 2007 at 4:10 PM in Intelligence, Iraq
Everyone who visits No Quarter has read the writings of W. Patrick Lang, and most of you are regular visitors to his exceptional blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis. You’re probably aware that Pat has long been at work on a true-to-history spy novel set during the Civil War. His novel has now been published, and it’s available through Amazon. (We’ve posted an advertisement in the middle column for your convenience, and there’s more background on the novel below the fold.)
Larry Johnson recently wrote about Pat Lang’s direct contributions to improvements in the Al Anbar province of Iraq:
The success achieved in Al Anbar has nothing to do with the surge and everything to do with finally tapping into genuine experts who know and understand Iraq. One of these is Pat Lang. In today’s Washington Post, Walter Pincus reports: … (READ ALL of Larry’s post, “The Success in Al Anbar.”)
If you don’t know Pat Lang’s career history, you’ll see why he’s uniquely qualified to write about the workings of a secret service, particularly during our nation’s most difficult, pivotal war:
Colonel W. Patrick Lang is a retired senior officer of U.S. Military Intelligence and U.S. Army Special Forces (The Green Berets). He served in the Department of Defense both as a serving officer and then as a member of the Defense Senior Executive Service for many years. He is a highly decorated veteran of several of America’s overseas conflicts including the war in Vietnam. He was trained and educated as a specialist in the Middle East by the U.S. Army and served in that region for many years. He was the first Professor of the Arabic Language at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. In the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) he was the “Defense Intelligence Officer for the Middle East, South Asia and Terrorism,” and later the first Director of the Defense Humint Service.” For his service in DIA, he was awarded the “Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive.” This is the equivalent of a British knighthood. He is an analyst consultant for many television and radio broadcasts.
Here’s more on Pat’s Novel:
JUST PUBLISHED! FROM W. PATRICK LANG — whose blog Sic Semper Tyrannis we all read regularly — an engrossing, suspenseful novel on the Confederate Secret Services:
The Butcher’s Cleaver: (A Tale of the Confederate Secret Services.)
W. Patrick Lang is a retired high level military intelligence officer, a life long student of the American Civil War and the Lincoln assassination. He is a widely published author and military consultant. His broad experience of combat and of the espionage world uniquely combine to give him special insight into the realities of such events across time. (Read more about Pat Lang’s distinguished service to this country.)
The Amazon page has more details on the plotline.
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Hey SusanUnPC…Thinkin bout ya after seeing the weather up there and hope you have avoided Noahs Arc…
Gurgle, gurgle …
While we’re not safe from storms in my vicinity — last winter’s 90-100 mph winds knocked down all the big trees around me — this time we were protected by the “rain shadow” of the mountains, and missed the worst of it.
It did rain here so much though. We had two bouts of snow this weekend, and constantly between the snow it rained and rained and rained.
Our nearby U.S. Coast Guard station personnel are real HEROES — they flew to Mason County and other areas, and rescued people stranded on rooftops after a levee (or dam?) broke.
My daughter lives in Seattle but luckily is in an area up high and didn’t have any damage …. so many people living in apartments and condos in Seattle lost their cars, which were underwater.
It was peculiar to check the Seattle papers last night and see a list of Red Cross shelters in and around Seattle. We’re not used to that since our weather is so mild usually. (The big worry here is that earthquake that’s coming someday.)
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I’m really excited about getting Pat’s book. I’m glad it’s a novel, which allows him the freedom for some dramatic license while also injecting all of his knowledge about the Civil War.
I usually lurk around here but just wanted to say thanks for the tip on Col. Lang’s novel. Been waiting for it to be published since reading excerpts over at his blog.
Biden As POTUS? Anyone? Just curious what the ya’ll think…
why not. he’s literate and a polished speaker who has been on the senate intelligence committee for years i think. him and Ron Paul would be a great split ticket. i think that is what America needs….some kind of coming together to get SOMETHING besides nothing accomplished.
See him on Hardball this afternoon? He RAWKED.
Before anyone recommends Amazon, realize it is a company without soul. They send you to scam sellers and their goal is to put small business, out.
perhaps instead of adding to the misery of this nation, recommendations for companies actively trying to end the free market would be considered questionable?
I would prefer getting it from any local bookstore first, amazon last, if ever. sorry.
Pat’s book is available through Amazon or Barnes & Noble, via his Web site.
Your points are all good sentiments. And, when I’m able to get out, I make a point of buying from a local bookstore once in a while. (In this town of 20,000, we have two thriving small bookstores that are well-supported by the community, and thankfully no “big box” bookstores that compete with them.)
I once worked hard on a blog for which we made the decision to go with Powell’s bookstore (in Portland, Oregon) rather than Amazon — Powell’s isn’t a tiny mom ‘n pop but an independent bookstore nonetheless. Thing is, their books sell for $3 to $12+ more than Amazon’s. A lot of people would view our recommendations, then go to Amazon to buy them for many dollars less.
At that other blog, I also set up accounts and ads with even smaller retailers — one was called Alibris, and it’s a lovely online bookstore with very reliable service — that sometimes had better deals than Powell’s or Amazon, but our blog readers never bought anything from them. Dunno why not.
Also: Amazon provides a major venue for very small businesses to sell their products … all the “used” books you buy via Amazon are typically sold by sole or very small proprietorships. Those are people who have home businesses typically.
Do most of us buy groceries in major supermarkets owned by huge corporations, or do we only shop at small mom ‘n pops?
I buy my special cat food through Amazon — and it comes from a small company in Illinois (Evanger’s) and is never sold in ANY U.S. grocery stores because it’s not a mass-produced product with cheap or “offal” ingredients. It contains only the best meat, and mostly organic at that. I cannot buy that high quality cat food anywhere near me — I’d have to drive 100 miles to get it.
I also get Bob’s Red Mill products via Amazon. Bob’s Red MIll is a small company in Oregon that makes and packages hot and cold cereals, all kinds of flour, raisins, nuts, seeds, and more. Its ingredients almost all come from U.S.-only farms. Its hazelnuts — to die for, they’re so yummy — are grown in Oregon.
What’s the reason I get Bob’s Red Mill through Amazon? At all the local markets, they carry very few of the company’s selections … via Amazon, I can order every single item that Bob makes.
(The first time I shopped for Bob’s Red Mill’s products at Amazon, itt was mind-blowing — I had no idea that Bob’s produced such a rich array of cereals, flour, nuts and dried fruits since I’d never seen them on a shelf in any store.)
I see your point, and used to agree with you. But since Amazon has given small businesses a way to reach millions of customers, it’s not all bad.
(Then there’s the ease of using Amazon’s Web site, better than any I’ve ever shopped at.)
I have bought dozens of books (American history and politics geek who is a community college prof. here) through Amazon’s program for smaller sellers. Never had a problem nor a bad experience, in fact all to the good, so thanks for saying what you said.
Thank you. And Amazon is how we support this blog. (Besides the advertising — btw, CLICK on the new ad that’s up for THE ISSUE. If we get good results, we’ll get more ads.)
I too have had good experiences with Amazon. Because of my hip surgery, I can’t bend over to sweep into a dust bin, and I found a long-handled dust bin at Amazon — there were many to choose from, and I picked the one that had 5 stars from customers. When I got it, it was missing a part. I called the merchant, and they immediately sent me another one + an additional missing part, so now I have TWO long-handled dust bins (someone’s getting the other for C’mas).
So I am listening to Bush say he does not want Iran to have the knowledege of how to build a Nuke.
sorry cats out of the bag.
I googled “How to build a nuclear weapon”…and got
2,130,000 hits…OK I know! ….it is a very difficult thing to do…so is climbing Mt. Denali.
I’m sure that world wide espionage is always “full speed ahead” regarding WMD and the next time Cheney sends a letter, it won’t be from Italy.
So when the new engine designs for the space shuttle get hacked from a NASA computer, at a loss of billions of dollars in R&D (you name what ever high tech designs you want) it is amazing that we assume joining the club can’t be done by a country with educated intelligent people such as Iran.
It blows my mind that people think an NIE, no matter how much it exposes the Bush dictatorships’ lies, will stop these end timers from doing exactly what they want.
Hell’s Bells!! They are going to kick this Iran can down the road to the next admin as well. I know our Intel folks deserve much in recognition and public support but if any disagrees with me then explain why they outed Valerie! Bottomline is they dont give a damn ’cause they are doing it anyway.
Sorry mudkitty 60 votes don’t mean jack at the moment.
Nasa hack:
http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/defense/story/0,10801,73305,00.html
Chinese hack: W-88
http://books.google.com/books?id=ok8uPPI11DAC&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=stolen+mark+88+weapon&source=web&ots=2DwduY8ZjW&sig=25BIqSN6-nhr4_KWoZXJY3hi3W0
I’ve had the privilege of visiting three civil war battlefields with Pat. Sure as hell beats wearing a headset. Plus he’s far more entertaining (and knowledgeable). I look forward to reading the whole book while holding it in my hands.
Larry, I sure would like to get him down here in my turf to give me a good run thought too….I live in TN and have been to the battle grounds and seen the markers for different states and the infantry they belong to. It is very interesting to see these markers and the little write ups of them…I am thinking about buying this book for the simple fact I think it will be fun to read. A lot of history around the TN river is a good place someday to visit.
Vicksburg, MS is a good place too for the history of the Civil War. To look down from the bluffs and see the river that they chose to do battles on is a good place for history.
few items:
1) i’ll toss this out there. i have read some of pat’s historical fiction writings. and to this lover of good prose, as well as good historical fiction…they are a pure delight.
2) i know someone who has worked with pat for the u.s. gvt. on middle east stuff at the highest levels over the decades and this person — who is top notch — has the great respect for pat.
3) no one should ever forget, and it should be told often, one of the most infamous anecdotes of “operation clusterf*ck,” aka, iraq. don’t know what job he was seeking, but pat interviewed with doug feith. whom we’ll recall gen. tommy-medal-of-freedom-franks said was the dumbest motherfletcher on the face of the planet. part of the interview went thusly:
DF: “so, i see you’re fluent in arabic?”
PL: “yes sir.”
DF: “too bad.”
actual conversation. or, as the great humorist dave barry would say, “i’m not making this up.”
pat didn’t get the job.
imho, you can’t tell that anecdote too many times.
I love that story too, WetHornet. Cracks me up every time — also makes my heart sink. If Bush’s people had listened to a true expert like Pat, we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in, or have wasted so many lives and incalculable treasure.
Pat is an excellent writer, one of those who can write very clear dissections of current affairs and can also write lyrical prose. His blog is a must-stop for me.
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