Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo's shockingly authentic military thriller sends Thomas Crocker and his SEAL Team Six brothers to confront a notorious ISIS general, The Viper, during the occupation of Aleppo, Syria. Despite the efforts of the Assad government and its Russian and Turkish allies, Syria is succumbing to the Islamic State. While Crocker and his SEAL Team Six comrades try to help a small Kurdish border town organize a resistance army, he finds an unexpected connection with Severine, a French epidemiologist working for Doctors Without Borders. As Severine and her colleagues establish a makeshift hospital in besieged Aleppo, Crocker counsels caution. He knows too well that their NGO status will be no protection from the Viper, a notoriously vicious ISIS general with a deeply personal hatred of the West. When the Viper's men kidnap one of Severine's American colleagues, Crocker will pull every string at his disposal to launch a rescue mission. But in a situation where the US has no official business, he'll push every boundary of how far he's willing to go -- and how far his SEAL brothers in arms will follow him -- to save innocent lives. "As real as it gets! Hunt the Viper reads like it was pulled from official mission traffic. Forget silly TV shows and movies, this book will show you exactly what it's like to be an operator at the tip of the spear. Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo's SEAL Team Six series are the most authentic military thrillers on the market. Period. End of discussion."― Douglas Laux , former CIA Field Operative and New York Times bestselling author of Left of Boom PRAISE FOR THE SEAL TEAM SIX SERIES: "The authors gives nuance and depth to Crocker's character . . . The conclusion is satisfying, with Crocker going entertainingly superhuman. . . . For the Tom Clancy/Dale Brown genre fan, Mann and Pezzullo provide enough excitement to while away a weekend."― Kirkus Reviews "The pace is relentless, and the inside knowledge of how the SEALs operate again gives this series its appeal. . . . For action fans, Crocker continues to deliver."― Jeff Ayers , Booklist "Pulse-pounding reads filled with the kind of knowing, immersive detail that can only come from someone with real-life experience in the field. A great series."― Howard E. Wasdin , New York Times best-selling author of SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper "A riveting and accurate description of how special operations units actually conduct counterterrorist operations in the field. . . . If you are interested in reading a suspenseful, action-filled novel written by the 'real deal' instead of some amateur wanna-be, pick up this book, or any of those in the SEAL Team Six series."― James Blount, former supervisor at the Central Intelligence Agency Don Mann (CWO3, USN) is the author of the national bestseller Inside SEAL Team Six and a former Navy SEAL. He lives in Virginia. Ralph Pezzullo is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning playwright, screenwriter and journalist. His books include Jawbreaker (with CIA operative Gary Berntsen) and Zero Footprint (with military contractor Simon Chase). Seal Team Six: Hunt The Viper By Don Mann, Ralph Pezzullo Hachette Book Group Copyright © 2018 Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-316-55640-8 CHAPTER 1 Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Mahatma Gandhi The six heavily armed U.S. Navy SEALs watched the battered pickup approach on Highway 47 in Iraqi Kurdistan as rockets, artillery shells, and mortars exploded in the distance. Team leader Tom Crocker had a lot on his mind today — the fierce fighting to dislodge ISIS from nearby Mosul, the mental welfare of one of his men, who had just learned that his father had gone missing, and his own future. As he stood along the two-lane asphalt road, his HK416 automatic rifle pressed again his right bicep, using his left hand to shield his eyes from the dust that swept up from the gently undulating plain, an alert came over the radio. A French AS532 Cougar helicopter had crashed south of the town of Sinjar, approximately fifty klicks (kilometers) from the Syria border. Other concerns quickly vanished from his head. "Survivors?" he asked into the mike clipped to the top of his camos as he waved the pickup to the side of the road. Davis, the team's comms man, seated in the second Flyer-60 Advanced Light Strike Vehicle answered, "CC [coalition command] is reporting six aboard the Cougar including pilot and co. Several casualties. It came down in contested territory, so medevac can't land until the ground is cleared." Crocker's eyes never the left the pickup, which slowed to stop — a sorry looking bag of bolts if he'd ever seen one, with a front bumper held on with string and mismatched colored hood and right windshield perforated with bullet holes. Another part of his mind remained focused on the downed French helo. "How far