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American mercenary : the riveting, high-risk world of an elite SEAL team operator turned hired gun / Daniel Corbett

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  • American mercenary : the riveting, high-risk world of an elite SEAL team operator turned hired gun / Daniel Corbett
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  • New York (N.Y.) Nashville (Tenn.) : Center street, 2024
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (VIII-258 p.) ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 978-1-5460-0619-0
  • 1-5460-0619-2
EAN
  • 9781546006190 rel.
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  • [American mercenary.]
  • [Riveting, high-risk world of an elite SEAL team operator turned hired gun.]
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 923.573 93
Note sur le contenu
  • Part I Gun in My Face "Dirty" An $85,000 Oversight Quitting Time Shotguns and Go-Fast Boats 5,000-Foot Hop-and-Pop Asim The Maersk Kentucky Pirates? Sniper, Shooter, Linguist "We Need Dirty." Tradecraft Level Three The Pony Room LAX>>>AUH Reservoir Dogs Brian "Bourne" Going inBlack Rule of Three The Range Accommodations Time to Hunt Camel Crushing It! Tech Guy Partner Force Rolling Solo Camp Yemen False Extract Terminated Hank and Kerry The Modern Mercenary Straight Humint Part II Welcome to Belgrade Sveti Sava Daniel Corbett Number Three Vucic, AKA TheWolf Familiar Friends, Familiar Faces Central Zatvor They Call Me Foka Roomies The State Department Room CZ 99 Scorpion A Flash of Silver Small Court Milosh's News Fucking Serbia, Man Dragoslav The Doldrums Change of Command Court Date! The Stench Happy Birthday to Me New Fish The Glasses Turns out I am Fluent Foka Legende! Derby Day Closing Arguments The Verdict Bowl, Spoon, Blanket, Kiro HomeAgain, Home Again Yallah, Brother
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  • "In American Mercenary, Daniel Corbett takes readers on a wild ride through the unadulterated, morally ambiguous, and riveting world of being a hired gun. From Abu Dhabi to Washington, DC, Cairo to San Diego, Belgrade to places that must remain secret, this is a world where money rules, and where adventure, danger, and absurdity often follow. A star high school athlete, Corbett passed on a Division I football career and opted for the US Navy. He began his career at SEAL Team 5 and eventually checked into SEAL Team 6. The navy spent millions teaching him and his fellow Team members how to sneak, subvert, recruit, disappear, survive, resist, and exert. And of course, how to shoot, a discipline at which Corbett excelled. What the navy did not do was prepare these men for post-military lives beyond the usual suite of veterans' benefits and unimaginative job-training programs. So what does Corbett do? He goes private. There are still plenty of bad men in the world, and the only sin worse than wasting talent in dead-end pursuits is not using it at all. He starts small, but quickly moves up. The work is simultaneously familiar and foreign. The command structure is shady. The clients are dubious. The equipment is subpar. But what the fuck: the pay is good. Then things change in 2017 when Corbett is arrested on a job in Belgrade, Serbia. When the authorities discover he's a Navy SEAL, they imagine the worst: he's in Belgrade to assassinate the Serbian president. They throw Corbett in jail, where he spends the next 18 months making international headlines and fighting for his freedom in a kangaroo court. Ultimately, American Mercenary highlights the struggle of many veterans: how to reconcile military service with civilian life. For Corbett, becoming a mercenary isn't just the best option, it feels like the only option. It's a lot better than drowning in a bottle or holding a pistol under your chin and pulling the trigger, but is it enough ?" (jaquette)
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