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Inspirational
- By Catharine on 28-09-2015
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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- Declan
- 09-05-2017
Absolutely Amazing
I loved this book from start to finish. I've never been a big book reader but since I drive a lot, I decided to give audio books a go and this one has hooked me.
I laughed and I cried in this book. O'Neils reading of the book really tops it off. I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much without his voice on his words. It's just like a conversation. A 10 hour long, one sided conversation but to be honest, that's not long enough.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-04-2019
awesome
amazing listen ,made all the better by rob reading it . willisten again and again.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-04-2019
What a book!!!
Amazing! Truly terrific. recommend to any current, former or future military member around the globe.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-10-2018
couldn't stop listening awesome book 👍👍👍
love that it was read by the author makes it seem that much more real
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- Hank
- 12-10-2018
Great read ... however
Great read I couldn't stop once I started on this title. Finished it pretty quickly in record time. Full of stories, a narrative and a chronology of his time in the Seals from Buds through to retiring from the Navy, not to mention taking down Osama Bin Laden. One thing though ... I thought the expletive language didn't really suit his voice and maybe emphasising expletives (at times) in the narration was not necessary. Otherwise great story.
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- Adem Becirevic
- 09-11-2019
Amazing Story
This is one of the best books I have listened too. It makes me regret I never did something like this when I was young Rob is unreal and sounds like a great guy. have listened too it 3 times lol
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- Kel
- 04-10-2019
Just Incredible.
An incredible story to hear. My words cannot do your words justice. Thank you for sharing such inspiration.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-09-2019
The Lead up Far out ways the historic moment
Really loved hearing about his life before he went on the mission and how we dealt with it afterwards
Good Read.
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- Rohan
- 22-04-2019
Fantastic book! Cannot recommend enough
This was an amazing book to listen. Rob’s honest yet very ‘tongue and cheek’ representation of his special forces career was inspirational to say the very least.
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- Max
- 17-04-2019
For anyone who wants to join the defence force!
Incredible insight, amazing journey. I was really engaged from start to finish. It’s given me a detailed perspective of the infamous seal team six! Found myself laughing and being taken a back by some gruesome details. But that’s war and this book is an honest account of it. Incredible biography and a real tribute to how far the mind can be pushed
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- Tim
- 28-04-2017
One of the best
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I found myself laughing so much during this. The fact that the author is reading it allows him to chuckle at the appropriate moments during his own recounting of funny events amidst serious war stories. I think what is sometimes missed in other SEAL narratives is the sense of humor these guys have and truly absurd situations they find themselves in.
His narration is genuine and you can tell some parts of his story are harder to read than others, for example, when he recounts the death of his friend Neil Roberts. I would not want to hear this story told by anyone but the author himself.
I've listened to just about every SEAL book on Audible and the Operator is potentially my favorite. You will be moved in all the right ways by this story.
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Thank you Rob for writing this. The sacrifices you and your brothers have made and continue to make may go unappreciated by some, but for the rest, they inspire daily. To use the popular Churchill quote, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".
Godspeed you champions.
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- RenegadeTM3
- 28-04-2017
Complete inside look into the teams and the life story of a great American patriot
I was a tad hesitant to order this book due to my thinking that Navy SEALs should keep their missions Top Secret. However, this book, narrated by the author himself, tells his life story and what led him to be the best at everything.
This book is beautifully written and explains the internal Drive to win at life.
Highly recommended
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- Larry
- 27-04-2017
The Best
Followed Robert's story through the Fox News Special a year ago and it was incredible..this inspiring book was even better -- The Best I've ever listened to. Robert and his brave warriors are heroes in every sense of the word. Y'all make me proud to be an American.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
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- Hoyt Neal
- 27-04-2017
The Operator
Robert O'Neill is an American hero. He is part of a continuous line of persons who were and are willing to fight those who would kill people to gain undeserved power in this world and a danger to us all. This is a sincere telling of his story. It gives insight into what we should know of the sacrifices of our military hero's. God bless them all.
11 of 12 people found this review helpful
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- Kenneth Malone
- 28-04-2017
Great
Have read a bunch of books by operators. This stands a hair above the other's by virtue if the author doing the narrating and the impeccable comic timing of the laugh out loud takes on tho vs that intersperse the life and death episodes.
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- jmtp1990
- 11-05-2017
Excellent book
Really great book over all a fantastic story that keeps you interested the whole way through. It took me only a few days to listen to the whole thing. The live these guys live are extreme and the story proves that.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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- Kevin L
- 28-04-2017
Candid stories of a real Navy Seal
This is a very in-depth and interesting account of Navy SEAL operations in some very dangerous territories. I would recommend to anyone interested in how real frogmen operate or interested in the Middle Eastern conflict and challenges.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful
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- Daniel
- 30-05-2017
Better than I thought it would be.
I heard the author on the Buck Sexton show, and decided to give the book a shot. I got the audible version, and it was just like a dude telling a bunch of cool stories, at least three of which were big time news stories.
He refers to seeing a Michael Jordan video, and if you know the story about what made Michael Jordan so great, then you start to see the same foundation, and drive that makes a Rob O'Neill, or any body at his level great.
Rob also says the sniper on his team had more kills than anyone he's ever heard of, which would mean that Chris Kyle isn't the most prolific American sniper of all time, and would this include Simo Hayha, who had over 500 kills at close quarters with a sub machine gun, and over 250 kills with a rifle?
Overall this book was better than I thought it would be, and the Audible version was well worth it. Rob has a down to earth style, that makes you want to root for the guy every step of the way. He's got a lot of funny and cool stories, that are a blast to listen to. The petty jealousy he had to deal with at the end of his career is a shame, and I can't help but think that if circumstances were different, and he was born long ago, and if he were somehow on some secret mission that took out Hitler, then he wouldn't have had to deal with the petty jealousy and grief back then, only convinces me, that this man was sent by God to shoot Bin Laden in the face.
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- Brian
- 11-05-2017
Great book. Highly recommended. Really cool
I really enjoyed the fact that it was read by Rob O'Neil himself. great job.
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- randy
- 25-04-2017
Amazing book!
An incredible account of patriotism, selflessness and bravery by a true American hero. Shortly describing his humble upbringing in Montana moving on to buds 208 training and ending in the lair of Usama bin Laden. This book is one of the best Seal books ever written. Not too many department of defense retractions and read by the author makes the book all the more authentic. This one will leave you wanting more.
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- Thomas Tobias Dinsen Hove
- 11-01-2018
Narrator is the author which adds so much better!
Loved the fact that Niel Roberts is narrator which just adds so much extra emotion, humor and an additional depth to the story. Feels like hearing the story across the bar from this amazing warrior. Hats off to him, the teams and the families behind them.
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- MR A J DAVIES
- 09-12-2017
Insight into a real American hero
I am not American, but I do recognise someone at the top of their profession who has done the whole world a favour
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- richard
- 18-09-2017
brilliantly read, a sense of being with the author
O'Neill tells his story as though you are sitting around a camp fire, listening to him recount his time over the years and includes so much of his inter team interactions that really brings to life the bonds he and others like him share. a great story and an equally great performance.
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- Jut
- 28-04-2017
Awesome, once it gets going
To start with it was just another book about BUD/S but bare with it, once past that it's a gripping listen, and O'Neill is great reading it, and often injects great humour into it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-08-2017
Rob reads it do well.. Seals are funny too!
loved it- best part the dancing when it came time for room inspection. so funny.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-11-2018
Brilliant
The book was a fantastic account to listen to but the way Mr. O'Neill has written and then read the book it seemed to jump at you.
The small jokes and comments by Mr. O'Neill throughout the book add to the in-depth knowledge and experiences he has had and accumulated throughout his career seem to engulf the listener in such a way as you can feel the emotions of the time.
Definitely, one of the best books I have listened to and I know I will listen again and again.
Thank you
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- Anonymous User
- 21-08-2018
The narrator is shocking
Don’t waste your money guys. I couldn’t finish it. The narrator reads like a child.
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- Mr. M. Bedford
- 01-12-2019
Heroes don’t have capes
Inspiring read, thanks for your device and may God look over you and your family.
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- Iain Watson
- 29-11-2019
WOW JUST WOW !!!
Being ex military this really is by far the most exciting book I have ever listened too. Robert is clearly a warrior and a very gracious man. He tells these story’s so well and I really take my hat off to him and all the teams he worked with. I know he hates the press of it all but you have to say Thanks for giving the world the sweetest double tap ever
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- Nick
- 22-11-2019
SEAL team 6
Good story of lifetime achievements only wish there had been a good Narrator , O'Neil speaks to fast and don't pause to let info sink in. We all know its SEAL TEAM 6 so why bleep it out.