Martial Artist: From Wimp to Warrior Book 2 by Jim Wagner

Jim Wagner’s monthly column, HIGH RISK, in Black Belt magazine, and his regularly featured articles in Budo magazine printed in six languages across Europe, was beginning to have the influence on the martial arts community that he had promised Editor Robert Young that it would have. His reality-based approach was putting the “war” back into the “martial” arts. However, with the attention came controversy and a whole new wave of enemies, and he was one of the first public figures to face a new type of character assassination that never existed before – cyber bullying.

After having his badge and gun taken away from him by the Costa Mesa Police Department, after ten years of loyal service, twelve months later Jim Wagner raised his right and was sworn in as a Reserve deputy sheriff with the nation’s fifth largest sheriff’s department. He was quickly promoted to the rank of sergeant, and then assigned as the team leader of the newly formed Dignitary Protection Unit, because of all the elite police and military units he had trained. The “full timers” didn’t like it, not one bit. To make matters worse, Jim didn’t know that the man he thought was such an honor to guard, Sheriff Mike Carona, who the media dubbed “America’s Sheriff,” was corrupt to the core.

In these pages you’ll feel the shock and anger the day that Al Qaeda terrorists attacked the United States of America on September 11, 2001, and how it led to Jim putting his international tactical training company on hold in order to accept a full time position as a federal agent to fight in the Global War on Terrorism. You’ll experience counterterrorism school, and then go out on actual missions. A few months after Jim possibly saved the country from a dirty bomb, or worse, by yanking a suspected Pakistani terrorist off of a flight bound for Washington, D.C., his former police partner, and business partner of 11 years, forced him out of the very corporation he helped founded.

For good measure, his business partner also saw to it that Jim would never be any possible competition. The day he and his wife received the cowardly message on their answering machine, January 21, 2003, marked the day that the Jim Wagner Reality-Based Personal Protection system was officially born, because he had no other choice. It was either sink or swim.

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