One Man In: The Explosive Firsthand Account of the Lone Special-Ops Soldier Who Fought Off a Major Terrorist Attack in Kenya

by Chris Craighead

The gripping and heroic firsthand account—like American Sniper mixed with a real-life version of Die Hard—by an off-duty special forces soldier who battled against a terrorist attack for twenty-two hours, and saved scores of American, Kenyan, and European lives.

After an otherwise ordinary morning of training with his firearms, British SAS soldier Chris Craighead was just beginning to relax in his new home in the bustling city of Nairobi, Kenya. Then the phone rang.

It was a friend, a former British soldier. In the background, Chris heard gunfire. The friend gave the address of an upscale DusitD2 hotel and office complex in Nairobi’s affluent Westgate neighborhood. He said it was under attack.

Within minutes, Chris was in his pickup truck with his weapons case in the back seat, racing to the scene. For the next twenty-two hours, he relied on his nearly three decades of elite military training to win a deadly game of hide-and-seek with a unit of ethnic Somali terrorists who had already detonated one suicide bomb and were intent on killing as many other people as possible.

Told in white-knuckle, minute-by-minute detail, One Man In is an unforgettable true story of heroism from a special forces soldier who happened to be in the right place at the right time—and decided to act.

Genres: War, Military Fiction, Action, Terrorism

224 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 20, 2021

Reviews

[Sean Dennis · Rating 5 out of 5]

For all the aparently uninformed ajd uneducated people.on here saying things like "a bunch of lies", or, "whitewashed crap", you should probably do a little research before putting your ridiculous opinions, which happen to be completely wrong, online for the world to see. This man did everything said in this book, qnd if you don't believe it a simple YouTube search could educate you a bit considering almost the entire ordeal was caught on camera. I mean there is literally video of him rescuing 100s of hostages. Even the local Kenyans were amazed at this foreigner who showed no fear and went back in over and over. He killed 2 of the attackers his self, and was the first person in when the counter attack operation started, he reentered the building, under fire, multiple times. So for all you uninformed people.out there talking about a white savior trying to use Africa ad a backdrop, well yeah. He most certainly was a savior that day, which any Kenyan that was there would 100 percent agree with, and this man is a true hero with more integrity and human decency then most of you could ever dream of. Be careful on here now. Your stupidity and racism is showing! Can't stand the fact a white man risked his life over and over again to save the lives of black people with no benefit or gain fir himself. Did it just because he had the skills and wanted to help, but that doesn't fit into your narrative of hate and victimhood mentality so here you are trying to claim this man did anything but write a book filled with nothing but facts and things that he really did, that has been verified time and time again by multiple outlets. Pathetic you would even try bashing this man just because of.his skin color... Man what is that called again? When you pass judgements on people based solely on their skin color?? Oh yeah that's right! Racist!! Which many of you ignorant fools most deffinitly are

[John Wilson]

British Special Forces Christ Craighead successfully lead an operation killing all Muslim terrorists who launched an unprovoked attack on innocent guests at a Kenyan hotel. He saved all the guests and killed all the Muslim terrorists. A true hero for our time.

[Linus Olsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

How one man has so much courage to do something like this is just breathtaking.

[Ken]

Great book, what a hero!! He did what only Special Operators can b/c only they have the skills and the courage to do it. Fuck the libs who question it, fuck the terrorists-siding assholes who hate freedom. This is a great book, a true story of how ONE MAN can save hundreds of lives he doesn’t even know.

[Nabbimba Daudi · Rating 1 out of 5]

A piece of whitewashed crap , written for western audiences to see themselves as the white saviors.

[Brian · Rating 1 out of 5]

Like much of what comes from this man, this is self-aggrandising partial fiction. He is prejudiced to the bone so the prospect of him crediting anyone else, particularly anyone Kenyan for helping during this is near zero.

If it gets released, it will bomb. My hope for Craighead is that it remains blocked and he can escape with his dignity intact without being outed as a fantasist and a liar.

[Rome Gardetskyi · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is not even out yet, but there are already a bunch of folks spreading made-up racial bs about the man, who went in, towards the deadly threat to save people who were strangers to him.
Jesus Christ, people, get some life and grow up.

[Jacob Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic what humans are capable of.

[Douglas bruno · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read

There are still heros in the world. A riveting account. Why in the world would the tyrants in the UK govt want to censor it

[Matt Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

“No one is coming, it’s up to us”

[JG · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating read

Fascinating read, wish it could have been longer, maybe gone a little more into his military career. Now I’m waiting for the movie.