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The Second Shot

A Green Beret's Last Mission

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The Second Shot

By: Gene Yu
Narrated by: Feodor Chin
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The riveting true story behind an unsanctioned rescue mission in the jungles of the Philippines, engineered by former Green Beret and unlikely American hero Gene Yu.

Evelyn Chang and her husband were vacationing in the Philippines when they were ambushed by terrorists. Evelyn’s husband was killed. She was kidnapped and disappeared into the lawless netherworld of the Sulu Archipelago. There was no hope of a rescue.

Former Green Beret Gene Yu was five years out of the military, unemployed, and struggling with his transition back to the real world when Evelyn’s family asked for help. His improbable mission: infiltrate one of the most dangerous corners of the world and get her back. Alone.

Mindful of “every young Asian kid in America struggling to fit into a dominant white culture,” Gene’s harrowing, self-deprecating, and provocative memoir is really the story of two rescues. One, a personal liberation and the discovery of self-identity beyond both literal and figurative battlefields. The other is set amid the excruciating ordeals of a jungle war zone, where an Asian American man, once self-described as “nobody squared,” defied all stereotypes and expectations to become a woman’s last hope of survival.

©2024 by Gene Yu. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Asian & Pacific Islander Creators Biographies & Memoirs Military & War Military War

Critic reviews

“The Second Shot is a thrilling memoir inside an action-adventure that takes you from the grueling training grounds of the US Army Special Forces to the jungles of the Philippines.”—Simu Liu, star of the Marvel Studio film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

“Inspiring, provocative reading.”—Kirkus Reviews

“A true life memoir that reads like a bestseller action/adventure novel, The Second Shot: A Green Beret’s Last Mission by Gene Yu is the stuff of which block buster movies are made. A simply riveting, compulsive page turner of a book.”—Midwest Book Review
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The true story was very impressive. Starting from shy Asian American growing up to becoming a military hero.

Great story

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Learned things I didn't have an idea on. Very entertaining and well written. I feel there's parts of the book and Gene's upbringing that all Asians or non-Asians can relate to

A great look into the life and story

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