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Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolutionary Paperback – April 1, 2014

by Mitch Weiss (Author), Kevin Maurer (Author)
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The hunt for Ernesto “Che” Guevera was one of the first successful U.S. Special Forces missions in history. Using government reports and documents, as well as eyewitness accounts, Hunting Che tells the untold story of how the infamous revolutionary was captured—a mission later duplicated in Afghanistan and Iraq.

As one of the architects of the Cuban Revolution, Guevera had become famous for supporting and organizing similar insurgencies in Africa and Latin America. When he turned his attention to Bolivia in 1967, the Pentagon made a decision: Che had to be stopped.

Major Ralph “Pappy” Shelton was called upon to lead the mission. Much was unknown about Che’s force in Bolivia, and the stakes were high. With a handpicked team of Green Berets, Shelton turned Bolivian peasants into a trained fighting and intelligence-gathering force.

Hunting Che follows Shelton’s American team and the newly formed Bolivian Rangers through the hunt to Che’s eventual capture and execution. With the White House and the Pentagon monitoring every move, Shelton and his team helped prevent another Communist threat from taking root in the West.

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"This is the real story—extremely well told—of the unraveling of a guerrilla force and the patient and heroic team work of the men who brought down the iconic myth."—Enrique Encinosa, author of Unvanquished: Cuba's Resistance to Fidel Castro


"Weiss and Maurer have done it again...With memorable characters, rich detail and a fast-moving narrative, they bring us deep into the Bolivian jungle - and into a riveting story you will not want to miss." —

Ames Alexander, award-winning investigative reporter with the Charlotte Observer

"Hunting Che provides a powerful portrait of an iconic revolutionary who fell prey to his own ego and passions and a US blacks ops team hellbent on his capture -- and death."—

Michael Sallah, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post

“Veteran journalists Mitch Weiss and Kevin Maurer have tag-teamed on another nail-biter…They shed light on an important—largely misunderstood—operation with fairness, objectivity, and candor.”—Tom Henry, Toledo-based writer and book reviewer

About the Author

Mitch Weiss is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist for the Associated Press. In 2003, he was assigned to a series that uncovered the longest string of atrocities carried out by a U.S. fighting unit in the Vietnam War. In recognition of the series “Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths,” which led to an investigation by the Pentagon, he was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. A series he wrote about corrupt real estate appraisers won several national awards in 2009. He also was part of a team of AP reporters that won a George Polk Award in 2010 for their coverage of the British Petroleum oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
 
Kevin Maurer is the author and coauthor of several books, including No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden. Covering special operations forces for nearly a decade, he has been embedded with the U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan numerous times and spent ten weeks with a team of Green Berets in Afghanistan in 2010. He has been embedded with American soldiers in Iraq, East Africa, and Haiti.
 

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0425257479
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Publishing Group; Reprint edition (April 1, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780425257470
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0425257470
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Mitch Weiss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a New York Times best-selling author. He has received numerous awards for his work, and his critically-acclaimed books have appeared on many lists. His richly textured military narratives delve into life and death issues on the battlefield and at home. His nine books have been published in more than a dozen counties, including China, England, France and Brazil. Weiss is a frequent speaker at book festivals and television. He currently works on national investigative projects for The Associated Press. In his career, he's been involved in investigative projects for major news organizations. Among the subjects: military misconduct, government corruption, white collar crimes, the housing meltdown and clerical sexual abuse. His agent is Frank Weimann at Folio Literary Management in New York.

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Sven
5.0 out of 5 stars Read how Special Forces advised Manhunt of Che--- and continue today
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2013
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This book delivers its exact description. Maurer has been highlighting the foundational capabilities of Special Forces in his recently released books. In Hunting Che, he tells the story, with his co-author, of how SF played a fundamental role in the training and development of the foreign Ranger team that captured the famous revolutionary. While historic in nature, the book is well researched and reads like a very well written personalized story in journalistic style. The writers capture the setting, the politics, the emotions, and most importantly (to me) the varied soldiers' mindset of initial self-doubt to trained and inspired confidence. Hunting Che ends up being two solid books in one--- the story of the hunt for Che, and an historic example of how the U.S. Special Forces foundational skills of training and working with other militaries can be leveraged and must remained honed, as a strategic unconventional weapon for global demands that remain today. Well done guys!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Green Berets, Special Forces, Foreign Internal Defense and Development
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2018
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A good look into the missions of the Green Berets whose primary missions are to train, eqip and work through the forces of the host nation to overcome internal and external threats to their lives and security. Great reading into the history of counterinsurgency and its many variables and the American Special Forces trained to go anywhere, anytime, to accomplish anything.
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Jerald Peterson
4.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Work on Che Guevara
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2013
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The best part of the book was the second half that provides insight into the Bolivian Communist Party and Marxist techniques to influence and prepare the populace for an eventual Marxist takeover of the government. This is done through a popular revolution of the poor and disenchanted against the white, ruling class. The ALBA countries of Latin America are a perfect example. Tana Bauer, a KGB agent, was sent to Bolivia to climb the social ladder to get close to and to identify better class and educated Bolivians who could be most influenced to support a Marxist take over of the government..This is still going on today in other countries around the world to include right here in the US. The Communists did not go away in 1989 with the fall of the Soviet Union, they just changed their clothes. Hunting Che was well researched and includes personal insight of those who took part in the event. I recommend it to all. Molon Labe P
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Dave B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2021
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Well written book. I enjoy learning about history and this was a subject I hadn't studied before. It's a good read.
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FMZ0311
5.0 out of 5 stars How COIN is supposed to work!
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015
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Vivid, but pertinent storytelling coupled with well-articulated historical intelligence analysis. Definitely a great book that perfectly describes the kind of SF job that Groups were made for. I whole-heartedly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know about how COIN is SUPPOSED to work, or how the US used to deal with threats during the Vietnam era that were not actually in SE Asia.
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3.0 out of 5 stars An observation
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2015
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I'm not going to go into a real detailed analysis of this book but simply to make some observations that haven't already been mentioned. I did think the book was good because it told one half of the story that hasn't really been said already. There is the Bolivian diary of Che himself, as well as of another guerrilla, Pombo. There is also Bustos' memoir of the war and other general biographies. This book however is told from the perspective of the key players on the other side, including Barrientos, Felix Rodriguez, Gary Prado, and more. The best part of the book I thought was the end after Che had been captured and his last day(s) and conversations are recalled that I had not read in detail anywhere else. Now on to the negatives.

One part I thought was wrong was when the author decided to put his assumptions down as fact, possibly misleading readers in the process. On pg. 107 the author writes, "It was all a show. Che wanted to present himself as an outlaw...He loved playing the loner, the rebel."

Not anytime or anywhere was this stated by Che and the author brings forth no evidence to establish or refute his opinion. Like I said it is simply the author's opinion but stated as if it were pure fact...and in many more places.

Again just a few pages later the author writes [during the guerrillas' occupation of Samaipata], "...and everybody knew these were cold-blooded killers."

The guerrillas began the war and shed blood in combat but all prisoners captured were eventually freed. The army on the other hand, if not killing their prisoners outright [Loro, Ernesto, Pepe, Chino, Che, Willy etc.] were brutally tortured [Debray, Bustos, Paco, or practically everyone else who fell into their hands alive, etc.]. It is hard for me to tell if the author is telling the story from his own perspective or telling the story as if he were in somebody else's head but I find the text misleading at best.

On pg. 175 there is this, "It was obvious to Rodriguez that Che didn't trust the Bolivians...On their home ground. Bolivians were more concerned with providing for their families than his Communist revolution.". Che obviously trusted the Bolivians Inti, Coco, Ñato, Julio, Dario and others who were given important positions and responsibilities in his army, yet no mention is made of that. How come? I sense it is because it would contradict the author's own opinions which break through here, there, and in many places such as this. The reader is misled by a statement such as this into seeing things from a certain [the author's barefaced anti-communist, anti-Che] point-of-view and not given a completely truthful or objective piece of writing.

A good book like I said but not objective enough in my opinion.
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BIKER101
5.0 out of 5 stars A book that must be read
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2015
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This book was so good that I bought extra copies for my friends. it is a unique book because very few people know the final episode in Che's life and many don't understand what this so called revolutionary was doing in Bolivia at that time. There are photos which clearly show Che's condition when he was captured by the Bolivian's ranger. The story takes you back to the political situation in Latin America in the sixties. Once you start to read this book, it is hard to put it down.
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castleguard
5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate story of the end of Che
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2020
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Finally the accurate story of the end of Che. A good book covering one of the earliest Special Forces operation.
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Mihir ajgaonkar
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read.
Reviewed in India on May 27, 2018
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Awesome book that tells us the inside story of Che's capture and death and the lesser known side of his personality. The brutality of the revolution that Che planned to inflict on Bolivia and the courage of the Bolivians to resist this attempt have been vividly portrayed in this book.
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Excellent book. Regards, Arturo
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