CHASING COURAG

As a boy, Rob Waples II watched his father run toward danger.
To him, his father was larger than life — a six-foot-three crimefighter with nerves of steel, a man feared by criminals and respected by the people he served. He was also the man Rob wanted to become.

But wanting to be brave and believing you are brave are two very different things.

Chasing Courage: No Guns, No Glory is the story of a man who spent much of his life trying to live up to the courage he saw inside his own home. From the streets of Philadelphia to the faraway battlefields of the Global War on Terror, Rob Waples II takes readers through the hard places where courage is tested, misunderstood, and often found where no one thinks to look.
A raw, honest, and unfiltered memoir about service, loss, and trauma, this is a hard-hitting account about one man’s search for meaning. Written in his own words, Chasing Courage asks the question that follows many people who have lived a life of duty:

Did I make the world safer?

Through tragedy, heartbreak, and triumph, Rob discovers that courage is not always found in battle and uncertainty. Sometimes the hardest fight is learning how to climb out from beneath another man’s shadow — and finding the strength to become who you were always meant to be.