In past blog entries here, I\u2019ve reviewed the action police novels of my friend and fellow police trainer Dan Marcou, all based on actual violent encounters in law enforcement history but rendered as fiction.\u00a0 Dan has now taken the logical next step and gone straight non-fiction in his newest book, \u201cLaw Dogs: Great Cops in American History.\u201d<\/p>\n
A retired SWAT operator from a busy Wisconsin venue, Dan is a nationally respected police instructor who does his research and does it deep. Some of the vignettes in his book go back to a time when all those involved were dead before any of us now had been born to write about it, but some of them involve people Dan and I know personally, and I can tell you what those hero cops told Dan about what they experienced is pretty much what they told me.<\/p>\n
Any of us reading this can face death at any moment. Dan\u2019s book \u201cLaw Dogs\u201d shares such experiences.\u00a0 If you think about it, \u201ctraining\u201d should be \u201cauthentically replicated experience,\u201d and as much as a book can do that,. \u201cLaw Dogs\u201d delivers.<\/p>\n
There are times in people\u2019s lives, cop or soldier or \u201ccivilian,\u201d when you look Death straight in the face and realize, \u201cI\u2019m probably going to die in a few moments, but there is something I have to do, right now\u201d <\/em>\u2026 and if you do that thing, you survive and continue to be a productive member of your society.\u00a0 And, if you share with others that right thing which helped you to survive, you may even help other good people in your world to emerge unscathed, too, from such deadly danger.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been there, and so has Dan Marcou, and that\u2019s the prism through which he shares with you the experience of the heroic men and women about whom he writes. Dan and I don\u2019t see exactly the same lessons from everything in every one of the cases he delineates, but hell, that\u2019s how instructors are in every discipline involving anything serious which ever might suck you into it.<\/p>\n The bottom line is, if you think you might ever find yourself or someone you love facing death at the hands of one or more violent criminals, the heroic men and women you\u2019ll read about in \u201cLaw Dogs\u201d will be role models whose example, should you follow true to them, can save the lives of you and other innocent persons you have a right to protect.<\/p>\n Which is why, needless to say, I consider \u201cLaw Dogs\u201d by Dan Marcou<\/a> \u201crecommended reading.\u201d\u00a0 You should be able to find it on Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In past blog entries here, I\u2019ve reviewed the action police novels of my friend and fellow police trainer Dan Marcou, all based on actual violent encounters in law enforcement history but rendered as fiction.\u00a0 Dan has now taken the logical next step and gone straight non-fiction in his newest book, \u201cLaw Dogs: Great Cops in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}