This instant New York Times bestsellerââa jaw-dropping, fast-paced accountâ (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert OâNeillâs incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue âLone Survivorâ Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the death of the worldâs most wanted terroristâOsama bin Laden.
In The Operator, Robert OâNeill describes his idyllic childhood in Butte, Montana; his impulsive decision to join the SEALs; the arduous evaluation and training process; and the even tougher gauntlet he had to run to join the SEALsâ most elite unit. After officially becoming a SEAL, OâNeill would spend more than a decade in the most intense counterterror effort in US history. For extended periods, not a night passed without him and his small team recording multiple enemy killsâand though he was lucky enough to survive, several of the SEALs heâd trained with and fought beside never made it home.
âImpossible to put downâŠThe Operator is unique, surprising, a kind of counternarrative, and certainly the other half of the story of one of the worldâs most famous military operationsâŠIn the larger sense, this book is aboutâŠhow to be human while in the very same moment dealing with death, destruction, combatâ (Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author). OâNeill describes the nonstop action of his deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, evokes the black humor of years-long combat, brings to vivid life the lethal efficiency of the militaryâs most selective units, and reveals details of the most celebrated terrorist takedown in history. This is âa riveting, unvarnished, and wholly unforgettable portrait of Americaâs most storied commandos at warâ (Joby Warrick).
Willim
9.4.2024
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