This book takes you on a journey with four US Navy SEALS in July 2005 as they head for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border. They were to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader and his small Taliban army rumored to be very close to Bin Laden. Five days later, only one of those Navy Seals made it out alive.
This story will make you proud of the American spirit, and will shock you to your core in regards to what our nation's finest must endure. You will be in awe they train to be seals, and then you will be mortified as you follow these four men through the horrific final battle. However, you will feel the honor and patriotism that all American's should feel for those who put their lives on the line everyday, fighting for freedom.
Various reviewers have disputed some of the facts in this book that reads a lot like a war thriller. However, some of these arguments seem frivolous in light of the heroism and the sacrifice of these men that is true.
There was some political commentary and I personally try to stay out of that in my own life, but I can respect a man's opinion. The statements (that I have heard he later regretted making) cause you to be in the moment with him in those mountains; a positive characteristic of the book. Much of the book is about Luttrell but his fallen teammates are also represented well.
