Head of the Snake Part 2: A New Kind of War

The JACK CARR Book Club August 2026 selection is EMPIRE OF ASHES by James M. Scott. The final months of World War II. Truman and Hirohito. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the decision that changed the world. In this episode, we discuss the firebombing of Tokyo, the politics behind Hiros ...  Show more

The Jack Carr Book Club July 2026 selection is SKYRING WATER by Louis L’Amour and Beau L’Amour. A Cold War thriller, a secret that could change the world, and a deadly race to control it. In this episode, I sit down with Beau L’Amour to talk about his father’s life, his path to w ...  Show more

A former member of SEAL Team 6, Mark Owen, recounts the raid that killed the world's most wanted man: Osama bin Laden. Owen, now retired, says the SEALs trained for the mission using a full-size replica of the bin Laden compound, and that a dress rehearsal was held for military t ...  Show more

It is 10 years since the al-Qaeda leader was killed. We look at the US special forces operation that finally tracked him down to a city in northern Pakistan, the 1979 siege of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, one of the events that shaped his world view; we talk to a Western-based j ...

Jason is joined by former U.S. Navy SEAL Rob O’Neill, who discusses the lessons he learned growing up in Montana, his experience with SEAL Team Six, and being part of the 2011 mission that killed Usama bin Laden. In part two of the conversation, Jason asks Rob for his opinion on ...  Show more

In late 2001, veteran CIA Officer Duane Evans deployed to Afghanistan as part of the US response to 9/11. This is his story. In Part 1, we find Duane as he swears vengeance against Al Qaeda - and moves mountains to get himself to the heart of the action. From SPYSCAPE, the home o ...  Show more