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Charlie Mike

A True Story of Heroes Who Brought Their Mission Home

Joe Klein 

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This true story of two decorated combat veterans who find a new way to save their comrades and heal their country is "a great look at two of the best veteran organizations going and the incredible humans who make the effort work" (Jon Stewart).In Charlie Mike, a true account that "reads like a novel" (Publishers Weekly) and "explodes like a thriller" (The Huffington Post), Klein tells the dramatic story of Eric Greitens and Jake Wood, larger-than-life war heroes who come home and use their military values to help others. Wounded in Iraq, Navy SEAL Eric Greitens returns home to find that his fellow veterans all want the same thing: to continue to serve their country. He founds The Mission Continues to provide paid public service fellowships for wounded veterans. One of the first fellows is former Marine sergeant Jake Wood, a natural leader who begins Team Rubicon, organizing 9/11 veterans for dangerous disaster relief projects around the world. "We do chaos," he says. "A deep and compelling exploration of a group of young veterans determined to continue serving after leaving the military" (The Washington Post), this is a story that hasn't been told before--a saga of lives saved, not wasted. The chaos these soldiers face isn't only in the streets of Haiti after the 2010 earthquake or in New York City after Hurricane Sandy--it's also in the lives of their fellow veterans. Charlie Mike shows how Greitens and Wood draw on the military virtues of discipline and selflessness to guide others towards inner peace and, ultimately, to help build a more vigorous nation.

Product Details

PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publish DateOctober 18, 2016
Pages328
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9781451677317
Dimensions8.2 X 5.4 X 1.0 inches | 0.7 pounds

About the Author

Joe Klein is an award-winning journalist and the author of seven books, including the #1 bestseller Primary Colors. His weekly Time column, "In the Arena," covers US politics, elections, and foreign policy and has won two National Headliner Awards for best magazine column.

Reviews

"An inspiring story of life--and death--after returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Joe Klein movingly describes how the struggle of veterans to rejoin a civilian world detached from their military experience and its life-changing impact often requires as much, if not more, courage and heroism as the battlefield. I could not put down this book which is, in the end, not just about finding new purpose but about brotherhood and love."

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