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Podcast: Military Matters
Episode: Author Don Bentley — Is real life getting stranger than fiction?
Description: Don Bentley is the bestselling author of the Matt Drake series and the man behind the two latest Jack Ryan Jr. books. Like the protagonist from one of his own works, Bentley has lived a pretty interesting life having spent a decade as an Apache pilot, serving as an FBI special agent focusing on foreign intelligence and counterintelligence, then as a SWAT team member, and now he’s not only writing about his own original characters but he’s also charged with shaping parts of the Tom Clancy universe. Is life getting stranger than fiction? Can reading fict...