The Operator

Release Date:- 2017-04-25

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This instant New York Times bestsellerā€”ā€œa jaw-dropping, fast-paced accountā€ (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert Oā€™Neillā€™s incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue ā€œLone Survivorā€ Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the death of the worldā€™s most wanted terroristā€”Osama bin Laden.

In The Operator, Robert Oā€™Neill 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, Oā€™Neill 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 killsā€”and though he was lucky enough to survive, several of the SEALs heā€™d trained with and fought beside never made it home.

ā€œImpossible to put downā€¦The Operator is unique, surprising, a kind of counternarrative, and certainly the other half of the story of one of the worldā€™s 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). Oā€™Neill 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 militaryā€™s most selective units, and reveals details of the most celebrated terrorist takedown in history. This is ā€œa riveting, unvarnished, and wholly unforgettable portrait of Americaā€™s most storied commandos at warā€ (Joby Warrick).

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