'You can't understand a society without understanding the stories they tell themselves,' says Marine veteran turned novelist Elliot Ackerman
Christopher Lee for The Wall Street JournalElliot Ackerman, whose new novel “Halcyon” is his eighth book in as many years, admits that many of his friends from his Marine Corps days are surprised by his second act as a bestselling novelist: “They say, ‘It’s so odd.
Why not become a security consultant?’” But then, friends who knew him as a teenage “skater rat” were similarly shocked when he became a Marine, serving five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and earning the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor and the Purple Heart.Continue reading your article with
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