No Easy Day
The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden
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Publisher Description
THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTION
For the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind.
No Easy Day puts readers inside the elite, handpicked twenty-four-man team known as SEAL Team Six as they train for the most important mission of their lives.
From the crash of the Black Hawk helicopter that threatened the mission with disaster, to the radio call confirming their target was dead, the SEAL team raid on bin Laden's secret HQ is recounted in nail-biting second-by-second detail.
Team leader Mark Owen takes readers behind enemy lines with one of the world's most astonishing fighting forces, in the only insider's account of their most spectacular mission.
'No Easy Day amounts to a cinematic account of the raid to kill Bin Laden: you feel as if you're sitting in the Black Hawk as it swoops in' NY Times
'A blistering first-hand account' The Sun
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The arch-terrorist's death was just another job," according to this gung-ho memoir by a member of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six that dispatched him. The pseudonymous Owen's (revealed by Fox News to be Matt Bissonnette) story is generalized" and scrubbed of classified information" but authentic enough to provoke Pentagon legal threats and convey a compelling realism. His meticulous narrative of the raid adds new wrinkles to the conventional account he insists that Bin Laden did not try to fight or hide behind his wives before he was shot, unarmed, while peeking through a doorway (Owen sneers at his unpreparedness) along with atmospheric details, from the terror of an initial helicopter crash to his cleaning of blood from Bin Laden's face for identifying photos. The raid caps Owen's well-observed memoir of training ordeals, awesome gear, bonding and banter, and special ops in Iraq and Afghanistan; co-author Maurer shapes these missions into tense scenes of strategizing, stealth and action. This is not a reflective book; the righteousness of post-9/11 military adventures is self-evident to Owen, and he worries only about measuring up to the SEAL standard of lethal teamwork. Still, it paints an absorbing portrait of the work-a-day soldierly professionalism that proved Bin Laden's nemesis. Photos.
Customer Reviews
No Easy Day
Wow. Just finished this book in record time. I could not put the book down once I started reading. It is humbling to realise that as we sit back in our comfy chairs and our cold drink by our side, there are young men from our special forces community out there laying their life's on the line in order that we can go about our daily life without even thinking of the consequences of not having men like this on our side. God bless you.
Superb
Satisfied my thirst for knowledge regarding the actual operation, not the media rumours
Controversial but exceptionally gripping.
Controversy surrounding the publication of Matt Bissonette's (aka Mark Owen) centre around the release of sensitive information about Special Forces operations during the Iran-Afganistan conflicts since 2001.
Claiming to represent the daily life of special operatives this recount does feel genuine to how actions, orders and experiences resonate throughout their sphere of affairs. I selected this book a while ago but never got around to reading it until watching Discovery channels documentary on the Neptune Spear operation. Inspired by the events which it described I leapt head first into the book and only surfaced to seek refreshments.
Gripping, detailed, tense - this recount of events has it all with such engaging depictions that you find yourself transported onto the C-130 and sprinting side-by-side with the ops teams.
A significant piece of global history told through the eyes of one person - first hand and thoroughly entertaining.