by Don Mann
Sutter: “Eight a.m., Crocker. I’ll see you back here.”
“Very good, sir. See you then.”
Acknowledgments
We couldn’t have done this without the hard work, expertise, and intelligence of a whole team of people, starting with our agent, Heather Mitchell, at Gelfman Schneider and a very talented group at Little, Brown led by our editor, John Parsley, and including William Boggess, Theresa Giacopasi, Nicole Dewey, Peggy Freudenthal, and Chris Jerome. Thank you very much.
We also want to express our appreciation to our families for their love and support—Don’s wife, Dawn, and his daughter, Dawn; and Ralph’s wife, Jessica, and his children, John, Michael, Francesca, and Alessandra.
About the Authors
Don Mann (CWO3, USN) has for the past thirty years been associated with the U.S. Navy SEALs as a platoon member, assault team member, boat crew leader, and advanced training officer, and more recently as program director preparing civilians to go to BUD/S (SEAL Training). Until 1998 he was on active duty with SEAL Team Six. Since then, he has deployed to the Middle East on numerous occasions in support of the war against terrorism. Many of today’s active-duty SEALs on Team Six are the same guys he taught how to shoot, conduct ship and aircraft takedowns, and operate in urban, arctic, desert, river, and jungle warfare, as well as Close Quarters Battle and Military Operations in Urban Terrain. He has suffered two cases of high-altitude pulmonary edema, frostbite, a broken back, and multiple other broken bones in training or service. He has been captured twice during operations and lived to talk about it.
Ralph Pezzullo is a New York Times best-selling author and an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His books include Jawbreaker and The Walk-In (with CIA operative Gary Berntsen), At the Fall of Somoza, Plunging into Haiti (winner of the Douglas Dillon Award for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy), Most Evil (with Steve Hodel), Eve Missing, and Blood of My Blood. His film adaptation of Recoil by Jim Thompson, directed by James Foley, is scheduled to reach theaters in 2013.
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ISBN: 978-0-316-20961-8
Contents
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Also by Don Mann with Ralph Pezzullo
Newsletters
Copyright