The Operator

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This instant New York Times bestseller ” a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account  (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O Neill s incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue Lone Survivor  Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the death of the world s most wanted terrorist ”Osama bin Laden. In The Operator, Robert O 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 SEALs  most elite unit. After officially becoming a SEAL, O 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 kills ”and though he was lucky enough to survive, several of the SEALs he d trained with and fought beside never made it home. Impossible to put down ¦The Operator is unique, surprising, a kind of counternarrative, and certainly the other half of the story of one of the world s most famous military operations ¦In the larger sense, this book is about ¦how to be human while in the very same moment dealing with death, destruction, combat  (Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author). O 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 military s most selective units, and reveals details of the most celebrated terrorist takedown in history. This is a riveting, unvarnished, and wholly unforgettable portrait of America s most storied commandos at war  (Joby Warrick). (Source: Google Books API)