{"product_id":"the-operator-firing-the-shots-that-killed-osama-bin-laden-and-my-years-as-a-seal-team-warrior-1","title":"The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a Seal Team Warrior","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller--\"a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e) 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 historic raid that led to the death of the world's most wanted terrorist--Osama bin Laden.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Operator\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 earn a place on SEAL Team Six. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Impossible to put down...\u003ci\u003eThe Operator\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author). O'Neill delivers a military memoir as he 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. Perfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sniper\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLone Survivor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHorse Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e, this gripping page-turner is \"a riveting, unvarnished, and wholly unforgettable portrait of America's most storied commandos at war\" (Joby Warrick).","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51944049541351,"sku":"9781501145032","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_440fea84-54cc-4bd5-a4ad-97624efbc274.jpg?v=1775351385","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-operator-firing-the-shots-that-killed-osama-bin-laden-and-my-years-as-a-seal-team-warrior-1","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}