Operation Pineapple Express : the incredible story of a group of Americans who undertook one last mission and honored a promise in Afghanistan
(2022)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
958.1047/MANN,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022
©2022
©2022
EDITION
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
xviii, 392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781668003534, 1668003538 :, 1668003538, 9781668003534
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Maps on lining pages
Prologue -- Part I: Nezam -- Part II: The dust storm -- Part III: Task Force Pineapple -- Part IV: The long night -- Part V: The dust clears -- Epilogue
A tense real-life thriller follows a group of retired Green Berets as they worked together to save a former comrade, along with five hundred Afghans, right before the ISIS-K suicide bombing at Kabul airport amidst the chaos of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan