Tim Gatto is to our American literary population what the spotted owl is to our national wildlife. He won't offer you anything fancy [but in Gatto] you'll experience the conscience of a true American patriot, writer, and veteran who has insisted all his adult life on actually making use of the freedom to use his own eyes, to use his own mind and intellect, to read voluminously, and to look through the surfaces of things and down to the reality beneath. When I said "things" just now, I could as well. have said "lies." And when I said "the reality beneath," I could just as well have said "the truth." I have been following Tim Gatto's work for several years now. And I couldn't hold either him or it in higher esteem than I do.  — by Eric Larsen, from the Introduction of "Complicity to Contempt". 

Tim served over 20 years in the Army. He has taveled extensivly and he came to realize that regardless of nationality or race, we are all basically the same the world over. Being that he was always against the concept of an "Imperial America", finishing his 20 years in the Army was difficult to say the least. He has decided to use the remainder of his life to point out the the deception of American propaganda.