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