Chuck Pfarrer

Chuck Pfarrer
Born	(1957-04-13) April 13, 1957 Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter.
Nationality	American
Genres	Print: Non-fiction: Military, Espionage, Counter-terrorism. Fiction: Reality (Historical) Fiction, Literary thriller. Film: Military, Action adventure, Science fiction, Suspense.

Charles Patrick "Chuck" Pfarrer, III (born April 13, 1957, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and former U.S. Navy SEAL from Biloxi, Mississippi.

Biography

Pfarrer is the son of Charles Patrick Pfarrer, Jr., a career naval officer, and Joan Marie Pfarrer, a registered nurse.

Pfarrer is a graduate of the Staunton Military Academy, and studied Clinical Psychology at California State University at Northridge and the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Pfarrer went through Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S) in 1981 and spent 8 years as a Navy SEAL. He served as a military advisor in Central America, trained NATO forces in Europe and the Mediterranean, undertook duties in the Middle East, notably in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. As executive officer of the SEAL Team assigned to the Multi-National Peacekeeping Force, he witnessed the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut. Pfarrer was one of the SEAL Team leaders responsible for the apprehension of Abu Abbas and the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Pfarrer ended his service as Assault Element Commander at the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), formerly known as SEAL Team 6.

After leaving the military, Pfarrer embarked on a career as a Hollywood screenwriter. His film credits include writing, acting and production work in Navy SEALs, Darkman, and Hard Target. Pfarrer was the screenwriter on The Jackal. His spec screenplays for Virus and Red Planet were also made into movies. He is an uncredited writer on the films Arlington Road, Second Nature, Sudden Impact and Green Hornet. He is the author/creator of six graphic novels for Dark Horse Comics, and wrote and produced two interactive full motion videos, Flash Traffic and Silent Steel, both for Tsunami Media. Pfarrer was active in the 2004 effort to recall Writer's Guild of America president Charles Holland, who had wrongly claimed to be a wounded combat veteran, intelligence officer and Green Beret. Holland eventually resigned under fire.

Pfarrer’s best-selling autobiography, Warrior Soul, The Memoir of a Navy SEAL, was published in 2004. His first published novel, Killing Che, was in 2007. Pfarrer is the author of the 2011 book "SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden", a New York Times Best Seller., which was controversial because he gave a different account of the raid than had the government. (See Death of Osama bin Laden—Alternate account.)

Continuing Work

Pfarrer has written broadly on terrorism and counter-terrorism, and serves government and industry as a subject matter expert on special operations, terrorist operational methodology, counter-proliferation and terrorist employment of weapons of mass destruction.^{[citation needed]} He has written Op Ed for the New York Times and the Knight Ridder syndicate, appeared as an author and counter-terrorism expert on CSPAN-2, NPR, the Arabic network Al Hurra, IPR, Voice of America, Fox News and ABC, America Tonight and The Australian Broadcast Company. Pfarrer serves presently an Associate Editor of "The Counterterrorist", a journal of international security, special operations, counter insurgency and counterterrorism.^{[citation needed]}

Pfarrer is presently at work on an investigative article sourcing the various “versions” of Neptune’s Spear, quoting administration officials and their various walk backs. Pfarrer is also seeking to interview bin Laden’s relatives and Pakistani civilians who witnessed the assault. Preliminary information from these witnesses corroborates the story that the helicopter crashed after, and not before bin Laden was killed.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to working on a film version of the bin Laden raid, Pfarrer has a novel, Phillip Nolan, due out in 2012.

Works

Fiction

• Killing Che (2007)
• Phillip Nolan (2012)

Non-fiction

• Warrior Soul, The Memoir of a Navy SEAL (2004)
• SEAL Target Geronimo, The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden (2011)

Graphic novels

• Virus 1, 2, 3, 4 (1996)
• The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear (1995)

http://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/92-196/Virus-1-of-4

Screenplays

• Navy SEALs
• Darkman
• Hard Target
• Virus
• The Jackal
• Red Planet
• Barb Wire

Uncredited Screenplays

• Arlington Road
• The Green Hornet
• Point of Impact
• Second Nature

Interactive motion pictures

• Flash Traffic (1992)
• Silent Steel (1994)

Poetry

• Saint Brendan’s Boat (2007)