Pfarrer says of his motivation in writing the book: 鈥淚 can鈥檛 say that the operators wanted the story corrected, but I can say that I wanted the story corrected. One of the things these guys give up is the privilege of publicly criticizing the management.鈥�
Senior defense officials have pushed back on Pfarrer's account, disputing the timeline he raises and saying that no active-duty SEALs agreed to speak with him for the book. Pfarrer responds that his comrades indeed shared their experiences with him.
鈥淚鈥檓 part of the community and have been for a long time. I didn鈥檛 have to gain anybody鈥檚 trust. They鈥檝e known me. In my previous life I was commander of the same outfit that did this thing. It wasn鈥檛 a problem for me to find these guys, because they鈥檙e all my friends.鈥�
The book, to be published Tuesday by St. Martin鈥檚 Press, 鈥渄efinitely involves some dramatic invention,鈥� Pfarrer concedes. He says, for example, that he recreated conversations that took place in the Joint Special Operations Command鈥檚 (JSOC) conference room, which he describes as 鈥渢hree stories underground, and sit[ting] behind a foot-thick, sound-proof steel door with both an electronic card reader and an old-fashioned combination lock, like a bank safe in a spaghetti western.鈥�
Pfarrer is sanguine on the response to the book. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 think the reaction to my book will be as bad as when they found out that Disney was trying to copyright the term 鈥楽eal Team 6.鈥� 鈥�
