Action Fiction features Benchmade

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A recent good read, "Gone Tomorrow" by Lee Childs. Main protaganist John Reacher gets the bads guys and girls at the end when his MP5 runs out of ammo and he must prevail with his Benchmade folder. Author is good with details of the knife and adds "it is so sharp you can drop a ten dollar bill on the blade and get two fives in change".
 
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That's pretty cool. Haven't come across that in a novel yet.
Only with firearms have I heard a particular manufacturer mentioned in a book.
 
In some of the 'Rogue Warrior' novels (not looking to comment on the quality of the writing), there is mention of how Richard Marcinko uses his CQC 7 quite a bit.
 
I can't think of any good knife details in books, but Stephen Hunter is very good at using guns, almost as characters in his novels.
 
well the king has been and always will be metal gear solid 2: guns of the patriots;

weapons fetishism at its highest.
 
From Wikipedia...

New York Times bestselling author David Morrell's novel The Protector not only has the main character, a former Delta Force operator named Cavanaugh, using an Emerson CQC7 knife, but the cover art itself is a photograph of a blood-stained Production Emerson CQC7. Cavanaugh uses the knife in combat as well as in many rigorous cutting chores. The author acknowledges Emerson as "the best manufacturer of tactical knives" as well as a "top level blade instructor for elite military and law-enforcement units". In an interview with British E-Zine Shots : The Crime and Mystery Ezine, Morrell indicated that he injured his collarbone during an Emerson knife-fighting course while performing research for the novel.s Morrell went on to include Emerson's knives in his books Creepers and The Spy Who Came for Christmas.

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