Book description
No Easy Day by Mark Owen with Kevin Maurer is the
first-person account of Bin Laden's execution.
For the first time anywhere, a first-person account of the planning
and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team
who carried out 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: the SEALs were going after bin
Laden.
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.
In No Easy Day, 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.
Praise for No Easy Day:
'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
Mark Owen is a former member of the US Naval Special Warfare
Development Group, commonly known as SEAL Team Six. In his many years
as a Navy SEAL, he has participated in hundreds of missions around the
globe, including the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian
Ocean in 2009. Owen was a team leader on Operation Neptune Spear in
Abbottabad, Pakistan, on 1 May 2011, which resulted in the death of
Osama bin Laden. Owen was one of the first men through the door on the
third floor of the terrorist mastermind's hideout, where he witnessed
bin Laden's death. Mark Owen's name and the names of the other SEALs
mentioned in this book have been changed for their security.
Kevin Maurer has covered special-operations forces for nine years.
He has been embedded with the Special Forces in Afghanistan six times,
spent a month in 2006 with special-operations units in east Africa,
and has embedded with US forces in Iraq and Haiti. He is the author of
four books, including several about special operations.
Mark Owen is a former member of the US Naval Special Warfare
Development Group, commonly known as SEAL Team Six. In his many years
as a Navy SEAL, he has participated in hundreds of missions around the
globe, including the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian
Ocean in 2009. Owen was a team leader on Operation Neptune Spear in
Abbottabad, Pakistan, on 1 May 2011, which resulted in the death of
Osama bin Laden. Owen was one of the first men through the door on the
third floor of the terrorist mastermind's hideout, where he witnessed
bin Laden's death. Mark Owen's name and the names of the other SEALs
mentioned in this book have been changed for their security.
Kevin Maurer has covered special-operations forces for nine
years. He has been embedded with the Special Forces in Afghanistan six
times, spent a month in 2006 with special-operations units in east
Africa, and has embedded with US forces in Iraq and Haiti. He is the
author of four books, including several about special operations.
