A Burlington Northern freight ran for North Dakota, the boxcars snapping past the fields next to me. Like Light of Day, a wry thriller concerned with the fate of small-time chiselers consigned to statelessness.

But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.

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The Greatest Secret, the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a journey that will take the listener beyond the material world and into the spiritual realm, where all possibilities exist. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force tactical air controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events. The darkly humourous description of the way big corporations exploited the unwitting third-world nations is spot-on as it is delectable.I can imagine that this story influenced Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth - there are some obvious parallels and Dogs of War was only written 7 years after Dirty Secrets. In Dirty Story Simpson faces the prospect of becoming a penniless exile, a non-citizen of any country. I was playing around, for so many reasons, with changed perceptions and this is what I came up with.