![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You know the statistics: Maybe one in ten will make it.” Do you endure the frigid Pacific Ocean waters overnight as part of Navy SEAL training, or do you quit for a cup of hot coffee? Greitens uses this storytelling technique throughout the book, pressing the pause button on his own accomplishments to ask the reader what he would do in a circumstance Greitens himself experienced, such as the time he was interrogated by Chinese police and asked to rat out a friend. Every muscle in your body throbs with pain. Greitens opens with a chapter titled “You”: “You stand in freezing water up to your chest. An autobiography that seeks to lead by example, “The Warrior’s Heart” largely fulfills its mission with a story that’s as relatable as it is inspiring. In a young-adult marketplace crowded with fictional tales for and about teen women, it’s a relief to discover a book that reaches through the miasma of video games and sports biographies into the minds and hearts of young men, especially one that is so well executed. Now the 38-year-old is back with “The Warrior’s Heart,” a young-adult adaptation of his bestselling memoir for adults, “The Heart and the Fist,” that offers living proof of its tag line: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage. Houghton Mifflin, 288 pp.: $16.99, for ages 12 and upĮric Greitens came from the humblest of beginnings to become a Rhodes scholar, a national boxing champion, a PhD, a Navy SEAL, an Iraq war veteran, a humanitarian and a bestselling author from writing about his experiences. ![]()
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