Chuck Pfarrer

CHUCK PFARRER is a former Assault Element Commander at SEAL Team SIX and a veteran of more than 150 combat operations in the Middle East. He is the New York Times best selling author of “SEAL Target Geronimo: Inside the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden”. Pfarrer is a also the screenwriter of seven #1 Hollywood blockbusters, “The Jackal”, “Navy SEALs”, “Darkman”, “Hard Target” “Virus” and “Red Planet”. He is the author of “Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL” and the critically acclaimed novel “Killing Che”. Pfarrer’s second novel, Philip Nolan; The Man Without a Country, was hailed “the finest historical fiction since Patrick O’Brian”.

In addition to writing and screenwriting, served as Associate Editor for the Counterterrorist Journal. He is considered an expert on Al Qaeda, ISIS and global salafist jihad. Working for the Office of Homeland Security, he was the principal author of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Annex of the National Counter-terrorism Plan. Pfarrer has written Op Ed for the New York Times and appeared as an author and counter-terrorism expert on CNN, Fox, CSPAN2, NPR, Al Hurra, IPR, Voice of America, ABC, Sirius Media and MSNBC. He has worked for government and industry as a counter-terrorism and military contractor. As a journalist, Pfarrer wrote extensively on Benghazi, and reported from Bagram and Kabul while flying missions with the Afghan Air Force.