Targeted Beirut, Jack Carr
Targeted Beirut, Jack Carr
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Targeted: Beirut
The 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing and the Untold Origin Story of the War on Terror

Bestseller

Author: Jack Carr, James M. Scott

Narrator: Ray Porter

Unabridged: 14 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/24/2024

Synopsis

The first in a new “authoritative, shocking” (Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author) nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut.

1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Battle of Iwo Jima when a truck packed with explosives crashes into their headquarters and barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. This horrifying terrorist attack, which killed 241 servicemen, continues to influence US foreign policy and haunts the Marine Corps to this day.

Now, the full story is revealed as never before by Jack Carr and historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott with this “definitive, behind-the-scenes account of a mission and a fight that changed America” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author). Based on comprehensive interviews with survivors, extensive military records, as well as personal letters, diaries, and photographs, this is “a masterwork of research and storytelling” (Peter Schweizer, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

About Jack Carr

Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL who led special operations teams as a team leader, platoon commander, troop commander, and task unit commander. Over his twenty years in Naval Special Warfare, he transitioned from an enlisted SEAL sniper to a junior officer leading assault and sniper teams in Iraq and Afghanistan, to a platoon commander practicing counterinsurgency in the southern Philippines, to commanding a special operations task unit in the most Iranian influenced section of southern Iraq throughout the tumultuous drawdown of US Forces. Jack retired from active duty in 2016 and lives with his wife and three children in Park City, Utah. He is the author of The Terminal List, True Believer, Savage Son, The Devil’s Hand, In the Blood, Only the Dead, Red Sky Mourning, and Targeted: Beirut. His debut novel, The Terminal List, was adapted into the #1 Prime Video series starring Chris Pratt. He is also the host of the top-rated Danger Close podcast. Follow Jack on Instagram, X, and Facebook @JackCarrUSA.

About James M. Scott

A Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, James M. Scott is the author of Target Tokyo, Black Snow, Rampage, The War Below, and The Attack on the Liberty. In addition, Scott is a sought-after public speaker, who leads battlefield tours and lectures at institutions around the world. He lives with his wife and two children in Charleston, South Carolina, where he is the Scholar in Residence at The Citadel. Visit him at JamesMScott.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brendan on August 18, 2024

There is a special kind of worry specific to history nerds. What happens when one of your favorite authors teams up with an author from another genre? In this case, a personal favorite of mine, James M. Scott, is partnering with Jack Carr, author of the wildly popular Terminal List and other thrille......more

Goodreads review by Terminal on July 23, 2024

TARGETED: BEIRUT Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ TARGETED: BEIRUT gives readers an invaluable and incredibly gripping account of the fateful Marine barracks bombing that reshaped the global landscape and foreign policy. Vital perspective and compelling storytelling enable the reader to understand the position of a ninet......more

Goodreads review by Ben on October 11, 2024

I love Jack Carr but I just couldn’t get into this book at all. I got 50 pages in and my wife got 19 pages in before we each gave up. I couldn’t keep straight where in the timeline the story was, where the story was going and all the details. The details seemed superfluous at times and it was hard t......more

Goodreads review by Steven on November 08, 2024

On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched an unspeakable terrorist attack on Israel killing over 1200 men, women, and children, and seizing over 200 hostages. The Israeli response was a brutal attack of retribution that has led to the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the evisceration of a sig......more

Goodreads review by Pajtim on January 21, 2025

Honestly, when I picked up this one, I thought it was more like a dissection—clinical, precise, pulling the threads of geopolitics apart until the entire tapestry unraveled. Instead, Targeted feels more like a sledgehammer to a nail that didn’t need fixing. Jack Carr has a knack for drama, and his na......more

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