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David Everett Author Shadow Warrior
ABOUT SHADOW WARRIOR

It’s a combination of true crime and military non-fiction. It’s about a young, highly-trained, motivated, fit and action-hungry SAS operator who got sick of not having a war to fight, went to the jungles of South East Asian, found a war, then ended up Australia’s most wanted man and was in more strife than Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly. He dominated the front page of newspapers and led segments of television news programs across Australia at the peak of his crime spree. The public’s fear was fuelled by the tabloid media and a couple of cops depicting him as a highly- skilled crazed killer on the loose. Such was his reputation when captured, the government spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in heavy security operations to move him from prison to the courts and kept him in virtual isolation  in a “special handling unit” (a gaol within a gaol for the “baddest of the bad”). This is the first time he has talk about the real circumstances that led to his criminal activities. He was a skinny young apprentice mechanic who applied for SAS selection and nobody thought he'd never be able to get through the gruelling course. Not only did he get through, he managed to achieve an above-average score to boot. Life in the Regiment was great for a young digger and he talks about what the daily grind is like in Australia’s elite counter-terrorism team and how, whilst investigating his mate’s suspicious death, he became inspired by the plight of the ethnic Karen in Burma and joined their fight against a totalitarian military regime. The harsh realities and horror confronting freedom fighters in the unforgiving jungles of eastern Burma are described from first-hand experience. He also talks about how his programming as a soldier led him outside of the law to raise money to help the Karen cause. There is something to take out of my story, whether it is awareness of the ongoing desperate plight of the Karen minority in Burma (and oppressed minorities around the world); some idea of the consequences of training young men to an elite level of physical and military skill, teaching them to live by a whole different set of rules and values to the rest of the world and then letting them lose on society with no debriefing; anticipation of the plight of those of our own unknowingly carrying the PTSD demon back with them from our recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq; or a profound understanding that the costs of crime far outweigh any perceived benefit at the time in ways you cannot imagine and that the means do not justify the ends, no matter how noble the cause.