Cheating Death: Three-Time Presidential Secret Service Agent Lives to Tell You How

Kenneth M. Valentine

Apr 2024 · Liberatio Protocol

About this ebook

“Everyone, and I mean everyone, will give you advice on which way to go with your life. Friends, acquaintances, classmates, teammates, your friends’ friends, family, teachers, counselors, and neighbors will nose into your business. They will want to help you with everything from how to dress, to how to act. They will tell you what and where to eat, where to go and what to do. Before you know it, your whole life will be planned out for you, by someone else. If you are susceptible to influencers, choose your influences wisely.

“Not all advisors, or advice, is equal. In fact, some of the advice coming your way courtesy of well-meaning friends or family may be downright awful. Truly wise and useful advice will come from very few. The world will give you the same crummy advice it gives everyone. “Get fame. Pursue fortune. More is better!” The world consistently perpetuates the lie, that fame and fortune will make you happy.

“The world lies. Fame and fortune will not fill the void in our heart that was designed to be occupied by Christ. Only God can fill that God-shaped space within us. The world keeps trying, and people keep following the siren-song down the wide path to happy destruction.

“Happy is hard to define. I have determined that Happy is an elusive place. All of the world’s unfulfilled and dissatisfied people will call you to the same wide path, life-plan they followed—and expect a different result? I challenge you to take the narrow road. I urge you to trust in the Lord in all your decision making.”

About the author

Ken Valentine retired from the United States Secret Service in 2020 as the Special Agent in Charge of the Dignitary Protective Division in the Office of Protective Operations. His career on the Presidential Protective Detail spanned ten years and three presidencies. He and Sandra have been married thirty-one years and have five amazing children. Since his retirement from the Secret Service, Ken has served on the board of directors at The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children where he chairs the Operations & Law Enforcement Committee. Ken is also a certified leadership trainer through Pointman Leadership Institute, teaches a community group class at The Church at Brook Hills, and serves on the board of directors at The WellHouse home for human trafficking victims. He holds an undergraduate degree from Purdue University and a law degree from Mississippi College.