The Last Rescue: How Faith and Love Saved a Navy SEAL Sniper

In the aftermath of war, aNavy SEAL finds faith, hope, and love.

Howard Wasdin, author of SEALTeam Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper (twenty-two weeks on the NewYork Times best-seller list), survived the firestorm made famous in BlackHawk Down only to return to a world without support, without a mission, andsoon without his family. Wounded in Mogadishu and facing a torturous journey ofrehabilitation and recovery, he came home to find his marriage falling apartand his world upended. When he met Debbie, an accountant emerging from her owntrial by fire, he realized this might be his last hope, and the two togetherbegan a journey of rediscovering their faith in God and their ability to trustin God’s goodness.

The Last Rescue is an unforgettable tale of brokenness andhealing, going deep into the firing line of modern warfare, through the agonyof broken marriages, and onto a path of redemption and love. With a clear-eyedview of the inevitability of heartache and the power of God’s faithfulness,Howard and Debbie remind us that no matter what our circumstances, we shouldnever, ever, give up hope.

Howard E. Wasdin, D.C., was a top sniper with SEAL Team VI. Howard served in the US Navy for twelve years, nine as part of the SEAL Teams. Howard was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States, and the Purple Heart tor injuries sustained in Operation Gothic Serpent in Mogadishu, Somalia. Howard now lives in Jesup, Georgia, where he is a practicing chiropractor. In 2012, he was inducted into the Jeremiah Milbanks Society of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Howard is the author of SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper , a New York Times bestseller for twenty-two weeks. He coauthored a fictional series, SEAL Team Six Outcasts. Howard also travels the country as a motivational speaker.

Joel Kilpatrick is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has been featured in Time magazine, the Washington Post, USA Today, CBS Radio, the Dallas Morning News and dozens of newspapers and magazines. He has authored and ghostwritten more than 40 books, including a New York Times bestseller. He has reported from disaster zones and civil wars in seventeen countries, and received numerous prizes for writing and reporting.

Kilpatrick has worked with many leading ministries including Rick Warren, Michael Hyatt, TBN, Joni & Friends, Nancy Alcorn, Convoy of Hope, the Dream Center and more.

Kilpatrick founded LarkNews.com, the world’s leading religion satire website which won the Dove award for humor (officially the Grady Nutt Humor Award) from the Gospel Music Association in 2005. He has won numerous awards for humor and reporting from the Evangelical Press Association. He was profiled in Time magazine, Christianity Today and on NPR, and has been featured twice in USA Today. LarkNews enjoys millions of visitors. Kilpatrick earned an MS degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York in 1995. He lives in southern California with his wife and five children.