Title: The Operator
Subtitle: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
Description: A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account of SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career. 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.
Subjects: War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, Assassination, Commando operations, United States, American Personal narratives, United States. Navy. SEALs, Special operations (Military science), Afghan War, 2001-, Biography, History, United states, navy, biography, United states, navy, seals, Bin laden, osama, 1957-2011, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2017-05-14, New York Times bestseller, Piracy, Maersk Alabama (Ship)
Places: United States, Pakistan, Butte (Mont.)
People: Osama Bin Laden (1957-2011), Robert O'Neill (1976-)
Time periods: 21st century