The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior [B0551]

2018 PB. 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. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Another excellent read about US Special Forces. I always enjoy getting to hear about the grueling aspects of BUD/S and Mr. O'Neill is added to the group. The toll taken on these elite warriors not only during their duty but after is brutal. I also like how he acknowledged and respected the other Tier 1 operators in the Armed Forces, this probably doesn't happen enough. Thank you Mr. O'Neill!"; "Impactful and super engaging. Didn't care for the abundance of harsh profanity, which hampered my enjoyment of the book. Still an incredible story."