The Operator by Robert O'neill
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 historic raid that led to 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 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.
"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" (Doug Stanton, New York Times 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 American Sniper, Lone Survivor, and Horse Soldiers, this gripping page-turner is "a riveting, unvarnished, and wholly unforgettable portrait of America's most storied commandos at war" (Joby Warrick).
O'Neill Jr., J.D., is a lawyer and lecturer who began his legal career as a volunteer at the District Attorney's Office in Philadelphia before being hired as a paralegal in several divisions. Following that, he accepted an invitation to study law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he got his Juris Doctorate. While pursuing his legal education, he worked as a senior law clerk at a large defense litigation company, honing his research and writing talents. In the fields of workers' compensation, federal civil rights, municipal law, and personal injury law, he conducted daily legal research and prepared numerous defense briefs and memorandums for multiple attorneys. He eventually moved to Philadelphia and worked as an adjunct professor at Drexel University, teaching paralegal and pre-law courses.
He designed and taught Legal Research and Writing and Advanced Legal Research and Writing, as well as assisting in the reorganization of the paralegal studies minor program. He also worked as a judicial clerk in Pennsylvania's First Judicial District, where he clerked in the homicide, felony, and family courts at that time. He has put in hundreds of hours of legal research and produced more than 80 Superior Court of Pennsylvania judicial decisions, as well as three Supreme Court of Pennsylvania death sentence opinions. He has also served as a mentor to a number of undergraduate and law school interns, teaching them the fundamentals of legal research and writing.
He has donated his time at a number of legal interest events and worked as a student mentor during his legal education. His first book is Legal Research and Writing: A Practical Method for Paralegals. He is now based in Philadelphia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781501145049 |
| ISBN 10 | 1501145045 |
| Title | The Operator |
| Author | Robert O'neill |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scribner Book Company |
| Year published | 2018-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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