The Operator
Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
Robert O'Neill
- 368 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Operator
Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
Robert O'Neill
About This Book
This instant New York Times bestsellerâ"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 terroristâOsama 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 killsâand 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 operationsâŠIn the larger sense, this book is aboutâŠhow 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).