Release Date:- 2017-04-25
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This instant New York Times bestsellerāāa jaw-dropping, fast-paced accountā (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert OāNeillās incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue āLone Survivorā Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the death of the worldās most wanted terroristāOsama bin Laden.
In The Operator, Robert OāNeill 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 SEALsā most elite unit. After officially becoming a SEAL, OāNeill 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 killsāand though he was lucky enough to survive, several of the SEALs heād trained with and fought beside never made it home.
āImpossible to put downā¦The Operator is unique, surprising, a kind of counternarrative, and certainly the other half of the story of one of the worldās most famous military operationsā¦In the larger sense, this book is aboutā¦how to be human while in the very same moment dealing with death, destruction, combatā (Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author). OāNeill 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 militaryās most selective units, and reveals details of the most celebrated terrorist takedown in history. This is āa riveting, unvarnished, and wholly unforgettable portrait of Americaās most storied commandos at warā (Joby Warrick).