Hunt the Falcon (25 page)
Authors: Don Mann,Ralph Pezzullo
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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.
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Ralph Pezzullo
is a
New York Times
bestselling author and an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His books include
Jawbreaker
and
The Walk-In
(with CIA operative Gary Berntsen),
Plunging into Haiti
(winner of the Douglas Dillon Award for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy),
At the Fall of Somoza, Most Evil
(with Steve Hodel),
Eve Missing, Blood of My Blood,
and the upcoming novel
Saigon
.
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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2013 by Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo
Cover design by Kapo Ng
Cover photographs by Ryan McVay/Getty Images (background); Rubberball/Getty Images (soldier)
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