Influences
Some of them are
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – R.M. Pirsig
Thucydides, the Athenian
Breakout - Martin Russ
Treasure Island – R.L. Stevenson
A.I. Solzhenitsyn
Bob Dylan
V.S.C. Ho
Plutarch
Herodotus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Titus Livius
Herman Melville
Jack Kerouac and Cormac McCarthy
Joseph Conrad
Alvin Toffler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
G.I. Joe
E.L. Doctorow
George Foreman