Review – Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown

Eric Blehm, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author’s new release, “Fearless” arrives tomorrow, May 22. It’s a remarkable narrative about “SEAL Team SIX’s most legendary operator,” Adam Brown, a member of the same SEAL team “… counterterrorism unit that took down Osama bin Laden…” Although “Fearless” is Adam’s story, it’s also the multifaceted story of an elite, little-known, fierce brotherhood of warriors who defend, protect and guard our nation’s freedom. The story begins in Adam’s childhood with his parents, older brother, Shawn and Adam’s twin sister, Manda who were raised by loving parents who learned to “…watch Adam like a hawk…” from an early age. Adam’s love of heights, demonstrated by frequent falls from his crib at the age of nine months made his father cut the legs off his crib so he wouldn’t have so far to fall. His daredevil childhood antics brought him “goose eggs and bruises” and a few tears that quickly ended when he would “…be off exploring…” once again. That adventurous attitude would follow Adam into adulthood and be an advantage in the brotherhood of SEALS. However, this “…undersized…fun-loving country boy” from Arkansas would first take a life-changing detour when he tried drugs with a young woman he wanted to impress, a five-year detour that would lead to drug addictions, jail and loss of everything important to him. Yet what started with painful devastation became a “…last-chance road to redemption…” when Adam found Christ during his confinement and later, his beloved wife Kelley. Readers learn there wasn’t a challenge Adam didn’t accept and excel at because “quit” wasn’t a part of his vocabulary. For example in two separate incidents he lost his right eye and one hand was crushed in a Humvee rollover. Both qualified him for medical disability. Instead, he trained himself “…to shoot—both pistol and carbine—with his left hand.” And learned to “swivel” his head to compensate for the loss of vision when he was accepted into SEALS “Green Team,” a specialty unit trained for “…in-room pistol clearance.” In addition to heroic deeds performed in overseas warzones, Adam made time to provide the children of Afghanistan with shoes, food and treats, noting sizes and needs as he went door-to-door. Adam never saw himself as a hero, only a warrior, son, brother, husband, father and Christian. He wanted his “complete” story told, especially his “…life before I met Jesus Christ and Kelley….” to encourage others on detours of their own. Adam’s remarkable journey from high school hometown hero to drug addict to jail to becoming an elite Navy SEAL is a testimony of the power of God to restore when lives are surrendered to him. This is the only book anonymously endorsed by a Navy SEAL who writes, “…we don’t endorse books or movies, [however]…read this book…it succeeds where all others fail…” I couldn’t agree more.