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  • Published: 4 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780718178000
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

No Easy Day

The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden




The only insider account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from inside the US Navy SEAL team who carried out the extraordinary mission

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.

  • Published: 4 September 2012
  • ISBN: 9780718178000
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

About the authors

Mark Owen

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

Kevin Maurer is an award winning journalist and the bestselling coauthor, with Mark Owen, of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden. He has covered war and terrorism for more than a decade.