At fifty, John Timothy was offered a clean exit: retire from the Army Reserve, no penalty, no questions asked. He deployed instead.
Second Summit is the record of what came after - not just that deployment, but the decades of reinvention that followed. A retired Lieutenant Colonel and former enlisted Airborne Ranger. A board-certified tax attorney with a JD, MBA, CPA, CFP, and LL.M. A man who benched 315 pounds at 70, earned his pilot's license after turning seventy, and still trains most mornings with his wife in their home gym.
This is not a book about staying young. It's a book about refusing to coast.
Built around the Warrior-Scholar archetype - the fusion of physical discipline and intellectual rigor - Second Summit argues that the second half of life isn't a slow descent from relevance. It's a second mountain, distinct from the first, with its own summit and its own demands. Strength, in this book, isn't nostalgia for youth. It's identity. Purpose isn't something you wait to discover - it's something you construct, deliberately, the same way you'd build anything else worth having.
Each chapter closes with a Summit Assignment: a direct, no-excuses prompt for the reader to apply what he's just read.
For veterans, executives, and any man standing at the base of his own second mountain, wondering if the climb is still in him - it is. Second Summit is the field manual.