I'll not lie I'm an ordinary guy But if push comes to shove It's do or die We've all got this natural instinct to do the right thing or what feels right in the heat of the moment. Whether we're in control of it, is another matter. but what Macer did was way beyond any natural instinct. Whatever convictions he had, he stayed true to them, right to the very end. Andy McNab's Forward is very much spot on with regards to Macer's calling. Yet I can hardly wrap my mind around how someone with so much to live for would put their dreams on hold, so as to deal a blow thousands of miles away to those who would kill, torture and behead men, women and children. The only analogy that springs to mind is when two opposites (of extremes) meet head on. Usually there's then one of two outcomes: One is either attracted to it or repelled by it. And yet Macer not only strove to repel it, he had to expunge its hatred from his psyche by fighting the evil that was and, still is ISIS on the ground knowing full well the consequences of doing so might have been disastrous for all concerned — but he went ahead and did it, anyway! Whether his resolve was indeed based on a mixture of his family's military history, along with a once held view in wanting to join the British Army as a young lad — that, and his humanitarian aspirations, one can only wonder. But what we can be sure of is that this former foreign exchange trader's intentions were always of the noblest calibre. If there's only one image that stays with me long after reading 'Fighting Evil', then it would be that of Shaheen, Kendal and Macer.