DUTY

Duty is explained by #Lee Child  in his book, #Nothing to Lose , at pp 475-76 as a two way obligation. When a man enlists, offering to serve Queen and Country he signs his life away, giving it to the government of his country in return for the hope & the unstated, inexplicit promise that they will not waste his potential sacrifice.

One can take the issue more generally. It is a Moral issue. If we are to survive we have to bring on the next generations. It is important to do it well. Caring for our Families is at the heart of the issue. But we are interdependent so our extended families, our tribe & our Nation matter too. That is why Treason is the major crime. Honest Tories care about God, King and Country; they are Patriots. How many of them are there? Among the political class they are thin on the ground. They have invented a Military Covenant, a formal statement of obligations. Is it clear enough to be useful after men have been broken by lifelong disablement? One hopes but doubts remain. It definitely does not help when IRA infiltrators mount a criminal prosecution against "Soldier F" - see Rolling Thunder for more on that one.

During the First World War, the #Inspector-General of Cavalry, India, later Field Marshall Haig, aka Douglas Haig, the 1st Earl Haig made a major contribution to killing  over five million men; that was just on our side. During the Second World War men were less trusting, volunteers were less common.

In a different world we could all be one happy family. The reality is different. Now, in 2016 we have politicians who are determined to allow England to be over run by foreigners, by Third World aliens, by parasites. It is Ethnic Fouling. The legal term is Genocide. It is Trahison des Clercs, the Treason of political, cultural, judicial, commercial etc. elites.

Lee Child ex Wiki
Jim Grant (born 29 October 1954), better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer.^[2] His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Each of Child's novels follows the adventures of a former American military policeman, Jack Reacher, who wanders the United States.

Early life
Jim Grant was born in Coventry, England.^[3] His father was a civil servant^[4] and his younger brother, Andrew Grant, is also a thriller novelist.^{[citation needed]} Grant's parents moved him and his three brothers to Handsworth Wood in Birmingham when he was four years old, so that the boys could get a better education.^[5] Grant attended Cherry Orchard Primary School in Handsworth Wood until the age of 11. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham.^[6]

In 1974, at age 20, Grant studied law at University of Sheffield, though he had no intention of entering the legal profession and, during his student days, worked backstage in a theatre.^[4] After graduating, he worked in commercial television.^[7]

 

Nothing to Lose ex Wiki      
Nothing to Lose is the twelfth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published in the UK by Bantam Press in March 2008 and in the US by Delacorte in June 2008. It is written in the third person.

As described by Sherryl Connelly of the New York Daily News,^[1]

In Child's 12th Reacher novel, "Nothing to Lose," our man has decided to walk across the country diagonally from Maine to California. It's a stroll until he hits Despair, where he's run out of town for just showing up.

The cops drop him at the neighboring town line, Hope. There, a really quite friendly deputy picks him up in a cruiser and they bond, first in trying to find out what kind of hell Despair is in, and then otherwise.

It's a one-man town. Everything, including the excessively profitable metal recycling plant, is owned by a crazed evangelist. But then there's the inexplicably located high-grade military base a couple miles beyond. Despair has more than one secret and won't give them up easily. That makes Reacher mad.

The guy's money when it comes to personally engineered max destruction for the right reasons. The folks in Despair have everything to fear, and nothing to hope for when Reacher comes to town. They just don't know that, until they do.

Similarities to First Blood     
Nothing to Lose features several similarities to David Morrell's 1972 novel, First Blood, including the fact that the lead character (a former soldier) is mistaken for a loiterer and harassed by local law enforcement. The name of the town in both novels is "Hope" and the theme of corrupt and bullying authority is also shared.

Morrell's novel was popular in its time and was the inspiration for the hugely successful 1982 film First Blood starring Sylvester Stallone, released to international acclaim.

Style       
Andy Martin of The Independent described the writing of the main character to be like "the great Philip Marlowe pulp tradition, nuanced with a dash of Rambo and Bruce Willis."^[2]

Critical reception      
Peter Millar of The Sunday Times found the novel to be "as gripping and readable as any in the Reacher series", though he considered the main character to be a "socially dysfunctional, second-rate Superman".^[3] Henry Sutton in The Daily Mirror wrote that the novel is another example of Child's "brilliantly paced plots".^[4]