Outcasts

Howard E. Wasdin · Stephen Templin

May 2012 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Authors of the “harrowing” (Time) and “adrenaline-laced” (The New York Times) insider memoir SEAL Team Six, Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin bring their bestselling talents and hardcore field experience to a riveting novel of a team that covertly defies military code to do what SEALs do best: keep America safe.

They are the Outcasts. Because people don’t want to know what they do. With bin Laden dead and seven al Qaeda members vying to replace him, America requires a team capable of finessing the U.N.’s policies of national sovereignty to take out the would-be terrorist leaders. The quartet of elite SEALs that comprises Tier One, a product of the top-secret Special Op unit Bitter Ash, will eliminate its targets under cover of darkness and with no official support from its government. But hot on the tail of the third target, the Outcasts discover a plot with the U.S. in its crosshairs . . . a threat that will put them to the ultimate test.

Ratings and reviews

With a very few exceptions (referring to a cartridge as a "bullet shell", and a couple other minor technical boo-boos) I found no objectionable content. That the protagonist would allow himself to become romantically entangled with a fellow operator is problematic, but of course the book is about mavericks, isn't it? And of course the bad guys get it in the end. Ooo-rah!

I usually dont read books but I bought the real book at an airport for the flight and I really really liked it. It can be a little hard to follow sometimes but most the time it is great! It does have a lot of bad words so I dont sugest it for younger kids. Its a thriller and it can be seen as a sci-fi in a way because they talk about weapons they used that I thought only existed in the movies! I would higly recomend it to a feiend.

Plenty of action. Easy read.Hard to put down.

About the author

Stephen Templin completed Hell Week, qualified as a pistol and rifle expert, and blew up things during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training. He lectured as a tenured university professor in Japan for fourteen years, where he also practiced the martial art aikido. Currently, he lives in the Dallas–Fort Worth area.