Eric Blehm

Best-selling author of The Only Thing Worth Dying For

Eric Blehm is the best-selling author of The Only Thing Worth Dying For, which recounts the harrowing story of the first Special Forces A-team to infiltrate Taliban-held southern Afghanistan weeks after 9/11. It was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. The Last Season, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award, was named by Outside magazine as one of the ten “greatest adventure biographies ever written.” Blehm lives in California with his wife and children.

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Fearless

by Eric Blehm

I got this book after my friend, retired Navy SEAL Captain Bob Schoultz, recommended it to me. It’s ASTONISHINGLY good. As per the sub-title, this book is about "The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown." It's a humbling, inspiring story "of an American hero who bravely gave permission in his final written requests to share his journey, from small-town America to gutter to jail to Jesus to war to the top tier of the U.S. military: SEAL Team Six.”

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His faith, family, and determination had kept him drug free for almost five years, but his body and brain had been altered by the drug and they would seek that pleasure forever.

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[Kelley said that] ‘God knew Adam real well by then. I turned to Romans 8:28: ‘And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.’ That became a theme when Adam got hurt. I’d ask ‘Why?’ and that was my answer.’

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Adam was known among the instructors for two reasons: his wife was expecting a baby, and he was one of only a few throughout the course who never failed to give his all—and then some. His scores were not the highest, but his determination was unmatched, and that carried him into the third phase of BUD/S.

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Setting the Trident at the head of the casket, Van Hooser raised his arm, clenched his fist, and brought it down with a thud—driving the pin into wood. One by one, every SEAL present removed his Trident and rendered the same honor to his fallen teammate. The only sound was the Thud! Thud! Thud! as more than fifty Tridents were pounded in.

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‘We were faced with some tough decisions,’ says [Adam’s father] Larry. ‘Are we going to abandon our faith or apply our faith. Allow our grief to make us bitter, or allow God to use that grief to make us better?’

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