Marine Scout Sniper. Two combat deployments to Iraq. He learned to stay quiet, stay hidden, and get the job done.
Coming home was harder than going over.
What followed was a decade of collisions: with law enforcement, with marriage, with loss, and with himself. The enemy was no longer out there. It was inside.
He reached his lowest point on a mountain trail in February, out of reasons, out of options. He found one more. This book is what he did with it.
Lima Charlie is military radio code for loud and clear. This book is him saying it all out loud, finally, the way it actually happened.
A memoir about what it costs to become dangerous, and the harder work of becoming whole.
For veterans. For the people who love them. For anyone who has ever wondered whether it's possible to rebuild a life from nothing.
It is.