We Execute Things: A Fox3 Pilot Turns Real Missions Into a Novel

Every so often a customer does something that reminds us exactly why we build what we build. Jarred Taylor, co-founder of Black Rifle Coffee Company and a longtime member of the Fox3 community, just released a military thriller, and the story did not come from thin air. It was flown first. On one of our servers.

The Book

Deep Scythe is the first novel in Taylor's Wet Boys series, published under the banner We Execute Things at weexecutethings.com. It runs 216 pages and is available in hardcover, softcover, ebook, and an audiobook that ships with an original score.

The story follows the pilots and commanders of Carrier Air Wing Zero aboard the USS Leviathan during Operation Diamond Harvest. It is a covert carrier campaign in South Asian waters, flown by aircraft that wear no nation's markings and carry orders with a built in expiration date. Taylor describes it as a strike built on layered deception, carrier precision, and the kind of trust that only forms under sustained fire. If that sounds like the after action chatter from a very good night on the server, that is because it basically is.

You can pick up the book here:

• Hardcover and softcover: store.bookbaby.com/book/deep-scythe
• Ebook on Amazon: Deep Scythe on Amazon

Missions That Were Real Before They Were Written

Here is the part we love. The operations in Deep Scythe are not invented for the page. They are derived from actual DCS World missions that Taylor's squadron, the Wet Boys, designed and flew together on a Fox3 Server.

The strike packages, the SEAD runs, the carrier launches, the close air support under fire, all of it was built in the mission editor, briefed, and then executed by real pilots before a single chapter existed. What started as a virtual carrier squadron grew into a brotherhood, and then into something stranger and bigger, a unit with its own aircraft, its own patches, and its own doctrine. The novel is the field record of that world.

The best part for readers who fly is that the line between the page and the cockpit is thin on purpose. Boot up DCS, and you can put yourself into the same airspace described in the book. The fiction and the flying feed each other, and Fox3 is proud that our hardware is where those missions actually live.

The squadron and its creative collective keep the world going beyond the book through art, music, and the sim community. You can find them at flywetboys.com.

About Jarred Taylor

Jarred "ESSP" Taylor writes from inside the culture, with the technical vocabulary, the dark humor, the callsign logic, and the particular weight of decisions made at altitude and under pressure. He comes by all of it honestly.

Taylor grew up in the Pacific Northwest and joined the Air Force out of high school, eventually serving as a Tactical Air Control Party operator, the people who embed with ground units and control air power in the fight. He spent eleven years on active duty, including two deployments to Iraq, where he started making films that the military later used for recruiting. He famously spent his reenlistment bonus on camera gear instead of a truck.

That instinct for storytelling turned into a second career. With Mat Best he started Article 15 Clothing, and alongside Evan Hafer the three of them founded Black Rifle Coffee Company, where Taylor serves as a co-founder. Through all of it he stayed a pilot at heart, and the Wet Boys are where that passion and his storytelling finally met. Deep Scythe is the result.

If you want a thriller written by someone who has actually controlled air strikes, then built and flew the fictional ones on a Fox3 Server, this is the one.

Read it here: weexecutethings.com