Here ya go. http://www.shtfinfo.com/shtffiles/books_and_reading/Unintended_Consequences.pdf
I’m computer illiterate. Is there anyway to download that? Im on a macbook pro if that helps,
Not sure about the Mac and PDF. We own iPhones and iPad but that’s my limit on Apple stuff. I just saved a copy and will email it to you if you PM me your address.
I appreciate it brother, but a friend from Calguns sent me a pdf and a Kindle friendly version. I also just purchased the rest of the Matthew Bracken books, so I should be busy readin on ship.
It occurred to me a couple days ago, LSHD is on float and when I read Unintended Consequences was when I was on float in 03, on the Iwo.
I had an alarm set on my phone to get Full Black when it came out. His stuff is that good, and it makes me more paranoid. Which I like. I always wonder how some of his books haven’t gotten movie deals yet.
That is a lot of books he has authored. Would you recommend reading them in order or is there a good jumping in point?
I almost bought his latest book a couple of weeks ago at the airport but went with a Vietnam novel “Matterhorn” since it was about the same time and area as my brother fought (USMC, Mutters Ridge 1969).
I read The Lions of Lucerne quite a few years ago, enjoyed it, but then sort of forgot about Brad Thorn’s books, until I read a review of Full Black recently.
I was contemplating doing a sequential catch-up through all his other books and get to Full Black later on, but my curiosity got the better of me and I jumped in and got the latest one on Kindle and read it on our trip to Scotland a few weeks ago.
In my opinion, each book stand on it’s own, but there is a certain level of historic continuity of the main character’s life that forms a thread throughout the series. Not enough to be distracting though.
In retrospect, I don’t think I lost anything of relevance in jumping ahead and reading Full Black ‘out of sequence’.
I am not a book critic, but I did sleep at the Holiday Inn Express recently :jester:
I haven’t read it yet but Amazon’s offering Enemies Foreign And Domestic for FREE from Amazon for a limited time. Looks pretty interesting. http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Foreign-Domestic-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B004JF4L98/
Just to caveat off of your post, I think everyone would benefit from reading Matt’s latest essay and downloading his free book:
Not a macbook user, but usually in any browser (you use Safari, right?), there should be a menu in the browser where you can click something like like a “File/Save as” and save the PDF file that you’ve browsed to, down to your local machine.
The pic of the dude at the bottom looks a lot like he of the famous beard and Magpul (formerly)… Who knew Costa had a pseudonym and was writing now… 
(ETA: more pics for comparison purposes: http://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/author.htm )
I’ll have to read this.
From Amazon, you can get the Kindle edition at no charge and there are Kindle reader apps for most computers, as well as iOS and Android I believe, if you don’t have a real Kindle.
Just for posterity’s sake, on a Mac, right click (ctrl-click) on the LINK (before you actually go there) and a contextual menu will pop up and one of the options is to save the target as a file. This will download whatever is being linked to to your computer.
Just downloaded the free Kindle-version of EF&D… Thanks Chadbag!
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You’re welcome, but I did not post the free Kindle link. That was Irish
I bought about half the Thor books from a used book place online after hearing about him on the radio (was like almost all of them when I did it about 4 or 5 years ago) but after reading the first 2 or 3, I stopped.
They are just too contrived and “forced”, if that makes sense. Plus, he writes about things he has no idea on (like the Mormons in his first book, “Lions of Lucerne”). No where near as engaging as Clancy (whatever you think of him, he rights a good story, though some of his later stuff suffers from the same “contrived” problems)
Yeah, I’m not sure if that’s quite it, but something about those books just isn’t quite right- maybe they’re just to easily finished. He spins out this whole big plot, and then wraps it up in like one or two chapters right at the end of the book. Feels kind of like the current H5-0 series were all they do is incessantly clear empty houses…
Or something like that.
From my sample of two- Usually what I do with a new author who has multiple books, is read the first book they wrote, then if I like it, work down the order. If not, read the newest book they wrote as somtimes they improve along the way.
I’m honestly not sold. His newest one (FB) had an interesting storyline, but I felt like I had already heard it a few times already- or at least wasn’t the “shock and awe” that came across in some others.
But then, I’m a randomly picky bookworm…
Also not quite sure I’m totally sold on Unintended Consequences either. Interesting, but… imho a little weird in some places.
What free book? Just E:F&D?
I didn’t see any others there, and I get a little rabid when people mention free books…
On another note- anyone read his new one yet- Castigo Cay?
It was pretty decent. As mentioned before, not quite the “shock and awe” of the last three, but still interesting enough for me burn through it twice.
(Albeit, if you think two times is a lot you should hear how many times I’ve run through some other books… I’m a voracious re-reader)
Find the amazon link in this thread. That is the free book.
Pretty cool.
I spent all evening last night and this morning reading EF&D cover to cover.
I liked that whole sail boat motif, it is actually making me want to learn about those boats.
Also, did anyone catch the “fat antigun filmmaker assassinated” reference in the later part of the novel?
If that tickled your fancy, wait til you see what happens to a certain liberal billionaire currency-speculator in the second book…