One Bullet Away

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer is an autobiography by Nathaniel Fick, published by Houghton-Mifflin in 2005. An account of Nathaniel Fick's time in the United States Marine Corps, it begins with his experiences at Officer Candidate's School in Quantico, Virginia and details his deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq during the War on Terror.^[1][2][3]

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

Author	Nathaniel Fick
Language	English
Genre	Memoir
Publisher	Houghton-Mifflin
Publication date	2005
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	372
ISBN	0-618-55613-3

In 2006, Recorded Books published an unabridged audiobook edition (ISBN 978-1-41937595-8), narrated by Andy Paris.

Awards

One Bullet Away won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for nonfiction in 2005.^[4][5] The following year, Nathaniel Fick received the Colby Award.^[6]