This Is Your Brain On War

Task & Purpose just posted an interesting piece on the psychology of combat. They teamed up with former West Point psychology professor and author Lt. Col. Dave Grossman to produce a visual guide to what happens to the mind and body before, during and after combat.Grossman is one of the experts who endorsed the realism of my novel Patriarch Run.

Patriarch Run accomplishes something few thrillers have achieved: it gets the guns right, and it gets the psychology of the gunfight right. Benjamin D...