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The Operator
- Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
- Narrated by: Robert O'Neill
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Stirringly evocative, thought provoking, and often jaw dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring 400-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden.
In this book 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.
The Operator describes the nonstop action of O'Neill's deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, evokes the black humor of years-long combat, brings to vivid life the lethal efficiency of the military's Tier One units, and reveals firsthand details of the most celebrated terrorist takedown in history.
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- Kindle Customer
- 23-04-2019
awesome
amazing listen ,made all the better by rob reading it . willisten again and again.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-08-2020
best story I've heard in my life.
Absolutely loved it! couldn't put it down and just simply HAD to finish it. Did the entire book in one, 9.5 hour marathon and im now wishing it didn't have to end. Strange thing for me to say considering I havnt read a book in probably a decade but I highly recommend it to anyone.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-12-2017
Fantastic book
Couldn't put it down, felt like I was there with him and very well written.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-06-2021
Recommend
Awesome to listen to I thoroughly recommend this audiobook. Reading is one thing but to listen to adds to the excitement.
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- Liam
- 31-08-2017
Bold and breathe taking.
I love it. having Robert narrate was one of the most moving things you can listen too
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- Anonymous User
- 29-01-2019
Great Audio Book
loved the stories. Funny at times but ultra serious. Loved it and would recommend it to anyone
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- Anonymous User
- 26-07-2019
amazing
absolutely loved the book. a great insight into the life of a true warrior and that of his fellow team mates
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- Mobbzy
- 13-07-2023
Worth a listen
Written and narrated beautifully. Could get caught up in the book and hours had flown past.
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- Andrew Smith
- 21-02-2024
Honest Telling. Actual author reading
I loved that it was read by the author, just added to the authenticity. I would’ve loved for the book to be longer
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- Bravo November
- 12-09-2018
Greatest book I have ever listened to
Robert is a true hero and its an honour to be able to hear his stories. I loved it from start to finish.
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