Men in Green Faces cover art

Men in Green Faces

A Novel of U.S. Navy SEALs

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Men in Green Faces

By: Gene Wentz, B. Abell Jurus
Narrated by: Jeff Gurner
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Because it’s a novel, the truth can be told. Because it’s the truth, you’ll never forget it....

Gene Wentz's Men in Green Faces is the classic novel of Vietnam that inspired a generation of SEALs. Here is the story of a good soldier trained to be part of an elite team of warriors - and of the killing grounds where he was forever changed.

Gene Michaels carries an M-60, 800 rounds, and a Bible. The ultimate SEAL, he also carries a murderous grudge against a bloodthirsty colonel who was once one of their own. To bring him in, Michaels and his men will go behind the lines, where they’ll take on 5,000 NVA in the fight of their lives. In this stunning novel, former SEAL Gene Wentz brings to life what it was like to be a SEAL in Vietnam, running an endless tour of top-secret, death-defying operations deep in enemy territory. From the camaraderie to the harrowing recons, from brutal interrogations to incredible, toe-to-toe firefights, here are America’s most feared warriors as you’ve never seen them before.

©1992 Gene Wentz and Betty Abell Jurus (P)2012 Macmillan Audio Action & Adventure Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military Fiction Solider Military

Listeners also enjoyed...

 No Easy Day cover art
Born Twice cover art
SOG Kontum cover art
The 13th Valley cover art
The Operator cover art
Warrior Soul cover art
Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne cover art
Code over Country cover art
We Few cover art
Alone at Dawn cover art
On Full Automatic cover art
Black Hawk Down cover art
The Reaper cover art
We Saved SOG Souls cover art
Sudden Threat cover art
Grunt Life cover art

Critic reviews

"Full of ambushes and firefights.… From page one I knew I wanted to be a SEAL. The more I read, the more I wanted to see if I could measure up." (Mark Owen, number-one New York Times best-selling author of No Easy Day)
All stars
Most relevant  
A truly great book, this was one of the first books I ever read on Vietnam an was hooked on special forces auto biographies. Any one with a licking of this subject will appreciate this one as it is one of the best to come out of this theatre of war. It’s narrated very well also.....‼️ 👳🏾‍♂️💥🔫🐸😂🤣💥💣🍀

“Brilliantly gripping”....

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is set in the Mekong delta and portrays the riverine activities of the 'brown river navy'.

It is written in the 3rd person, presumably as Wentz is a SEAL not a writer. This is OK, but i found myself wondering how much of the action was 100% accurate as a result.

It's written like most of these books in a mix of hoo-rah chest beating and God and country ideals. Normally I don't find this as distracting, but here it grates a little. Perhaps due to the 3rd person?

Overall it's a good addition to the genre, but not the best about the SEALs in Vietnam (SOG: the secret wars of America's commandos in Vietnam is a good recommendation, but not available from Audible).

Vintage SEAL memoir

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
finnished it in one go. couldnt put it down. an amazing read. got the tip from the book no easy day.

amazing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I just wanted to hear the rest of his story. the wife and child interaction then back for second.

left wanting more.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The book really had me from the beginning, well written and the base story was good.

Well written

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Ok so listening to the intro this book had so much potential in store yet I found this a very disappointing book. I found myself lost between scenes and unfortunately quite detached for the main character. So I generally found it hard to stick with. The overall setting and its missions were good however also were the descriptions of the weapons used that why ive given the performance a higher score.

Sorry what was this about again?

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
For such a highly recommended book this is a complete let down. It reads like a script for a Rambo movie and is on a par with John Wayne's Gteen Berets as a dreadful piece of gung-ho propaganda
Having read Nick Brokhausen's books this pales into total insignificance.

Garbage

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.