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Former Navy SEAL Jack Carr has breathed new life into the conspiracy thriller genre with his action-packed books and Amazon Prime TV adaptations. As he publishes his new Vietnam-set novel, he reveals how he planned it all out aged 11

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N BOTH book and on TV, Carr takes Reece — who discovers he has a brain tumour, the result of secret experiments on the SEALs - to the edge of extremism.

In one instance *spoiler alert* he solves a de facto locked room conundrum — the baddies are holed up in an utterly impregnable space — by sending in one of their co-conspirators in a suicide vest.

It is ballsy stuff, so did he ever think, “Are readers going to lose sympathy?”.

“I knew that I didn’t want to ask those questions as I was writing,” he admits.

“Remember the voiceovers from 1980s action movies that would say, ‘He had nothing left to lose’? I would always think, ‘He’s always got something to lose, he could die’.