Yellowstone’s Rip Wheeler Cole Hauser is going rogue with Mad Mel in Panama. 1980s. Nicaraguan Contras, CIA and so forth. Much scenery is chewed, and it tastes… pulpy.
Yeah, they went there with “Welcome to the jungle!” This, of course, requires musical accompaniment.
And this:
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Speaking of pulpy goodness, the East India Co. Amazon Prime has announced a July release date for a thriller series based on the work of Navy SEAL Jack Carr. I like Carr’s stuff and listen to his Danger Close podcast pretty regularly. Carr had two ambitions in life: to be a Navy SEAL and to write thrillers like the ones that he devoured as a youth. I like this. He’s a real student of the genre, and his work stands up well with the class of the field.
Here’s the caper:
Based on the novel by Jack Carr, The Terminal List follows James Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.
Carr’s “brand” is a pair of crossed tomahawks — David Winkler hawks being a somewhat controversial signature weapon of SEALs in the Global War on Terror. I never understood the fuss about the tomahawks — they are a time-tested and highly practical implement of the Frontier Partisan.
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I am pleased to note that the ace hunting writer Thomas McIntyre is a Frontier Partisans reader. McIntyre has an excellent article in the current edition of Sports Afield, recounting the scandal surrounding John Henry Patterson, a married woman and the death of her husband while out with Patterson on safari in 1908 in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya. That incident was an inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s short story The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber.
The late, great John Seerey-Lester depicted an incident from the 1908 safari of John Patterson and Ethel Jane Brunner Blyth, recent widow of James Blyth, who died under suspicious circumstances earlier in the safari.
Patterson is known for slaying the Tsavo maneaters, the inspiration for the movie The Ghost and the Darkness, but the darkness may, perhaps, lurk in the hearts of men (and women). McIntyre’s account is excellent — best I’ve read on the incident. Pick it up if you can — the whole issue is worthy.
Matthew says
Let’s see…
I picked up Garth Ennis’s comic about the Chindits. Haven’t read it yet.
I am reading Jim Corbett’s Maneaters of Kumaon. It’s interest reading. I’ve read a section every few days. I’m afraid it will get repetitive if I read straight through it.
Speaking of repetitive (and war comics) I read a collection of comics in a series called The War that Time Forgot which is about soldiers fighting Dinosaurs in the Pacific during WWII. It’s a loose series DC ran in one of it’s war anthologies. The concept fun, but the stories are real repetitive. Invariably, soldiers/marines land on island in the Pacific to fight the Japanese (who barely appear in the comics) and have to kill dinosaurs. In every story they kill like three of them and then get away. So not a comic that stretches the medium like Maus or Watchmen, but it is kind of fun in a stupid way.
Craig mentioned the Amazon series G.E.O. in one of his posts at RUR. I’ve seen the first four episodes. It’s really good.
lane+batot says
Dang–I couldn’t put down ANY of Jim Corbett’s jungle tales! None of it seemed repetitive to me, even after repetitive readings over the years! Each man-eater Corbett had to hunt down had it’s own quirks and tactics, and the ever present potential for things to go wrong keeps you guessing, even if you know Corbett survives because he lived to tell the tales!
Matthew says
Well, it may be better said that I prefer to savor the book.
Greg Waddell says
https://youtu.be/zvpaPpPrHio
David Wrolson says
I really enjoy Thomas McIntyre’s stuff and am stoked that he is at the campfire. I was really starting to get hopeful about Burkina Faso (and hoped to hunt there someday)-but he broke the news about it going ass over end and he broke my heart.
https://www.dailycitizen.news/sports/national_sports/the-trail-less-traveled-farewell-burkina-faso/article_d58d8f30-1389-11e9-8534-93c2ceeee15c.html
wayne says
“There is always something new out of Africa.” I just picked up a used copy of Robert F. Jones’ African Twilight: The Story of a Hunter.
JimC says
Oh, you’ll dig that.