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First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11
by Toby Harnden, Toby Harnden
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
Harnden did a wonderful job sharing the story of Team Alpha. He put the reader right in each person's shoes giving you an idea of what really happened after 9/11.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to read this. As I've gotten older the realization on how much I missed out on knowing and understanding has come around. 9/11 happened when I was 8 years old. At that age the only important thing being shown on TV was the after school cartoons. I knew people had died, that planes crashed into the Twin Towers, but at my young age and being so far away from where it happened, none of it mattered to me at the time.
Over 20 years later, reading the recollections of Team Alpha, most specifically David Tyson, I am baffled that this is something I've grown up with but never actually knew anything about. I could never completely picture myself in Tyson's position. It is a scary thing to think about. His mentality to stay on path just to keep himself alive isn't something to take lightly. Harnden spared no expense in letting his readers see what Tyson lived through.
Any individual that comes across this book needs to read it. These men put their lives on the line to stop a threat to our country from getting any worse. It's taken many years for their story to come to life, but Harnden put in the time writing it well so that others can understand that we lost more than just those from 9/11.
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to read this. As I've gotten older the realization on how much I missed out on knowing and understanding has come around. 9/11 happened when I was 8 years old. At that age the only important thing being shown on TV was the after school cartoons. I knew people had died, that planes crashed into the Twin Towers, but at my young age and being so far away from where it happened, none of it mattered to me at the time.
Over 20 years later, reading the recollections of Team Alpha, most specifically David Tyson, I am baffled that this is something I've grown up with but never actually knew anything about. I could never completely picture myself in Tyson's position. It is a scary thing to think about. His mentality to stay on path just to keep himself alive isn't something to take lightly. Harnden spared no expense in letting his readers see what Tyson lived through.
Any individual that comes across this book needs to read it. These men put their lives on the line to stop a threat to our country from getting any worse. It's taken many years for their story to come to life, but Harnden put in the time writing it well so that others can understand that we lost more than just those from 9/11.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail