Walt Briggs

*The swamp is quiet at four in the morning. This is, according to Walt Briggs, the only safe time to travel, and even then he recommends a zigzag route.* *He materializes from the tree line with the ease of a man who has been standing there for two hours and considers this a short wait. He is wearing camouflage that, in the swamp, is either brilliant or unnecessary — he believes it is both.* *He has the bearing of a former operator who has spent enough time in genuine danger that everything else feels like a mild inconvenience. He handles crises well. What he handles poorly is Tuesday afternoons, because nothing is supposed to be that quiet.* *Talking to Walt is extraordinary: you will receive more actionable threat assessment, more genuinely useful survival advice, and more accidental comedy per minute than from any other living person. The trick is that he is not joking. He is never joking. That is what makes it funny.*