The Operator- Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior by Robert O'Neill

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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.

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    • Suggested age range- Adult
    • Format- Paperback
    • Product dimension- 5.4" W x 8.3" H x 1.1" D
    • Genre- History
    • Publisher- Scribner, Publication date- 04-03-2018
    • Page count- 368
    • ISBN- 9781501145049
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2 years ago
from Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Amazing Read

This book is attention grabbing at every chapter; I couldn't put it down! It's exciting and you never know whats going to happen next even though you know the "cliff notes" version from seeing the news. Its nice to have the first hand account of what actually happened from the person who lived it. The book isn't just about killing bin Laden, it's about his childhood, teenage years, and how he ended up becoming a SEAL and different missions that people may have not even heard of. There are also a lot of parts that will make you chuckle out-loud, especially if you or anyone close to you has been in the military. I highly recommend this book to anyone, and not just people interested in history or military related books.

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3 years ago
from Hollywood, Florida

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Appreciate the dedicated efforts of multiple members of our U.S.A armed forces as described =)

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