"An astoundingly honest and personal account.The true story of a dedicated resistance soldier."Samir Geagea, President of The Lebanese Forces Party.This true story will get under your skin and into your head. The vivid account explores the mystery of human behavior under extreme duress. The SADM unit was a highly secretive and exceptionally well equipped and trained military commando unit. SADM members were trained by the Delta Force and others and operating mostly behind enemy lines, the name SADM instilled fear in the most hardened enemy soldiers. An accurate account of the life and evolution of a dedicated resistance soldier. A gripping depiction of men at war and a compelling story of survival and redemptionPierre Jabbour was the commander of SADM (Shock) unit. Wounded in battle and later captured and brutally tortured. Pierre is a skilled counter-terrorism officer responsible for the personal security of Dr. Samir Geagea, The Chairman of the Lebanese Forces Party. He has taught and lectured the military and civilians on counter-terrorism. A.E. Sawan, the author of The Ghost, an assassin's story series, was born on the outskirts of Zahle in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. By the age of 12, he and his family had been forced to move five different times because of the country's shattering civil war (1975 to 1990). Detained and tortured by both the Syrian Army and the Palestinian Liberation Army (PLO), he eventually became a counter-terrorist operative specializing in diffusing bombs. Having survived the war, he severed his connections to violence and left Lebanon for Canada.