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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">“Mick Haven is the
real deal. Like Phil Klay and Kevin Powers, he has both the real-world
experience and the finely honed writing skills required to capture the
boots-on-the-ground reality of men sent into harm’s way. ‘Operation Road
Warrior’ crackles with power and authenticity. Don’t miss it.” -Tyler Dilts
author of A Cold and Broken Hallelujah<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br />“Mick Haven's ‘Operation Road Warrior’ is bang-bang, edge of your chair
kind of prose. Saddle up. This is good stuff.” -Dan Fante, author of Point Doom
and Chump Change<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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If you liked <i>American Sniper</i> then the short story Operation Bear Claw: A Real
SEAL Story is for you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SEALs are more like Vikings, pirates or bikers than Knights of the Round Table
or Boy Scouts with guns. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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But meet some for yourself in Operation Bear Claw which picks up where Operation Road Warrior left off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br />“I don't know if I needed another mission, but I wanted one. And it was coming
fast, a real choice one. When it was over, I'd wish it never happened, but I'd
still want another,” Floyd says at the end of </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">“</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Operation Road Warrior</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"> while
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Operation Bear Claw is that mission, his second, the one he needed but wished
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“The explosion pushed back the night with an incandescent white column that
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Like a piece of Plexiglas, clear but solid, the shock wave slapped against me,
and I blacked out. I never even heard the blast.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Real SEAL Stories are not romanticized or anti-war, they're just war
stories: stark and unrelenting.</span><br />
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Mick Havenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15814508156530569499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454394303758917815.post-68421792256132187572015-07-21T01:04:00.000-07:002017-01-06T11:32:51.192-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">“Mick Haven is the real deal. Like Phil Klay and Kevin Powers, he has both the real-world experience and the finely honed writing skills required to capture the boots-on-the-ground reality of men sent into harm’s way. ‘<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Road-Warrior-Real-Story-ebook/dp/B00ZBCYR7E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439917311&sr=8-1&keywords=operation+road+warrior" target="_blank"><b>Operation Road Warrior</b></a>’ crackles with power and authenticity. Don’t miss it.” -Tyler Dilts author of <i>A Cold and Broken Hallelujah</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">“Mick Haven's </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">‘</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Road-Warrior-Real-Story-ebook/dp/B00ZBCYR7E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439917311&sr=8-1&keywords=operation+road+warrior" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank"><b>Operation Road Warrior</b></a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">’</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> is bang-bang, edge of your chair kind of prose. Saddle up. This is good stuff.” -Dan Fante, author of </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Point Doom</i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> and </span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Chump Change</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">If you liked <i>American Sniper</i> then the short story <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Road-Warrior-Real-Story-ebook/dp/B00ZBCYR7E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439917311&sr=8-1&keywords=operation+road+warrior" target="_blank"><b>Operation Road Warrior: A <i>Real</i> SEAL Story</b></a> is for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">SEALs are more like Vikings, pirates or bikers than Knights of the Round Table or Boy Scouts with guns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">But meet some for yourself in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Road-Warrior-Real-Story-ebook/dp/B00ZBCYR7E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439917311&sr=8-1&keywords=operation+road+warrior" target="_blank"><b>Operation Road Warrior</b></a> as the SEALs of Bravo Platoon kick off their deployment to Afghanistan by springing a Trojan Horse ambush on a Taliban warlord and his crew of hijackers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Road-Warrior-Real-Story-ebook/dp/B00ZBCYR7E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439917311&sr=8-1&keywords=operation+road+warrior" target="_blank"><b>Operation Road Warrior</b></a> is the first installment of The <i>Real</i> SEAL Stories about a SEAL platoon sent to Afghanistan as part of the Surge.</span><br />
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