Remi Adeleke is already an accomplished actor and writer, someone you might have seen on the Amazon Prime Video series, “The Terminal List.” Viewers of his previous work, however, saw a very different side of him, if they saw him at all.
Adeleke joined the Navy in 2002 as a corpsman, and then became a Navy SEAL, working in human intelligence. This means he worked sources, collected and vetted information, and used that intelligence against other intelligence.
He told the true story of his life in his first book, “Transformed: A Navy SEAL's Unlikely Journey from the Throne of Africa, to the Streets of the Bronx, to Defying All Odds.” It's a long title, but there's a lot to tell. Adeleke was born in Nigeria, came to New York City. at age 5 and eventually fell into dealing drugs in the Bronx.
His new book, “Chameleon,” is loosely based on his own life, but this time he uses fiction to elaborate on what he did in the SEAL teams, without using specifics that would give away classified information.
“It's a fictional extension of my memoir, ‘Transformed,'” Adeleke tells Military.com. “All the things that I couldn't talk about in ‘Transformed,' I fictionalized and created this fictional world with fictional characters and fictional events in order to be able to tell more of my story, but in a fictional way.”
Storytelling has been a huge part of Adeleke's life, and it's what led…
