MARK OWEN, author of No Easy Day and No Hero, is a former member of the U.S. 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 May 1, 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.
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 U.S. forces in Iraq and Haiti. He is the author of four books, including several about special operations.
"This harrowing, minute-by-minute account by one of the highly
trained members of Navy SEAL Team Six is narrative nonfiction at
its most gripping....No Easy Day puts you right there for every
tense moment."--Entertainment Weekly "Gripping....There is no
better illustration in No Easy Day that SEALs are ruthless
pragmatists. They think fast. They adapt to whatever faces them.
They do what they have to do."--The New York Times "[Mark Owen] has
given us a brave retelling of one of the most important events in
U.S. military history."--People "Make no mistake: No Easy Day is an
important historic document."--Los Angeles Times
"A remarkably intimate glimpse into what motivates men striving to
join an elite fighting force like the SEALS--and what keeps them
there."--Associated Press
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