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The True Story of a Mother at War
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The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high-value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance her life as a wife and mother. Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US... Read More
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The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who was killed at the age of 35 by a suicide bomber while hunting high value targets on a classified mission in Syria in 2019.

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The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high-value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance her life as a wife and mother.

Of the 1.3 million active-duty service members in the US military, only a tiny fraction are selected as β€œoperators.” Shannon Kent was one of the first women to serve at this level and was widely recognised as one of the best.

Shannon served as a Navy cryptologic technician, responsible for signals intelligence and electronic warfare, but her proficiency with language set her apart. She was assigned to a unit so secretive that its name can’t even be printed here, where she worked clandestinely to hunt the most wanted terrorists in the world.

Send Me is Shannon’s heroic life story, revealing the truth of both her work and the challenges she faced while trying to raise a family with her husband Joe, himself a Special Forces soldier. He and Shannon met in a war zone, their love forged during a special operations training course, their dedication spanning multiple combat deployments and the birth of their two boys.

It is the legacy of an extraordinary woman who rose to the apex of the military, working with the most elite forces in the world, lifting the veil from the life of a Special Forces family to share their duty, sacrifice, and humanity.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780063039896

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 June 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: William Morrow

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 467g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Marty Skovlund, Jr., is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose, a military news and culture publication. He is a former Army Ranger and an experienced conflict reporter who has reported on assignment from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ukraine in addition to embedding with the US military around the world. Joe Kent is Shannon Kent’s husband and father of their two children. Over the course of his twenty-year military career, he served as anΒ Army Ranger, Green Beret, and other classified special operations units.Β 

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