Black Site

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In 2001, I was the Delta Force troop commander given the secret mission to hunt down and kill the most wanted man in the world — Usama Bin Laden. In 2008, I shared the untold story of that fateful mission in the book Kill Bin Laden, and recounted the twists and turns of the Battle of Tora Bora fought high in the mountains of Eastern Afghanistan. Soon after Kill Bin Laden became a bestseller, I started a new mission — a mission to craft a thriller series about classified “black” ops and operators, “real” fiction about real warriors.

But before I took pen to paper and rushed something out onto the already overcrowded action-fiction shelves, I realized that I needed to first do some deep soul-searching. Specifically, I needed to analyze and isolate the unique mental aspects of the Delta Force operator — all because of one simple but powerful word.

The year was 2004, and we were laser-focused on anything and everything Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The elusive Jordanian terrorist and leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq had just shot to the top spot of our high-value target list after Saddam Hussein was ferreted out of a smelly rat hole.

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