Bestselling author Jack Carr's new nonfiction book, 'Targeted: The 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing,' combines compelling storytelling and meticulous research about the attack on U.S. Marines.
FIRST ON FOX: Editors' note: New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Jack Carr has teamed up with Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott for a series of nonfiction books that explore key terrorist events around the world that changed the course of history. The first book in the series, 'Targeted: The 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing,' is published this week, on Sept.
The terror attack on the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut in Oct. 1983 killed 241 U.S. military personnel, including 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers. Another suicide bombing just moments afterward killed 58 French paratroopers; six innocent Lebanese civilians were also killed. By special arrangement, here is an exclusive excerpt from the new book about the devastating attack — 41 years ago this fall — by Jack Carr and James M. Scott. It's already been deemed 'required reading.
Russell served as the last line of an impossible defense — one man armed with a handgun standing between a terrorist in a five-ton truck bomb and hundreds of sleeping Marines and sailors. There was nothing he could do. 'Hit the deck!' Russell shouted as he charged out of his guardhouse and raced north across the building’s atrium. 'Hit the deck!' Farnan, who seconds earlier had washed his face, darted toward the building but instinctively stopped.
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