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  • Published: 15 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780451472243
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 312
  • RRP: $35.00

No Hero

The Evolution of a Navy SEAL





The companion volume to the multimillion-copy bestseller No Easy Day by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen.

The companion volume to the multimillion-copy bestseller No Easy Day by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator.

Mark Owen’s instant #1 New York Times bestseller, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden, focused on the high-profile targets and headline-grabbing chapters of the author’s thirteen years as a Navy SEAL. His follow-up, No Hero, is an account of Owen’s most personally meaningful missions, missions that never made headlines, including the moments in which he learned the most about himself and his teammates in both success and failure.

Featuring stories from the training ground to the battlefield, No Hero offers readers a never-before-seen close-up view of the experiences and values that make Mark Owen and the SEALs he served with capable of executing the missions that make history.

  • Published: 15 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780451472243
  • Imprint: Dutton
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 312
  • RRP: $35.00

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.  

Praise for No Hero

"Owen emphasizes the selflessness and service of his fellow SEALs, along with the lessons he learned, in a book that is sure to appeal to the many fans of in-the-trenches special forces memoirs." --Publishers Weekly

Praise for No Easy Day:
"Narrative nonfiction at its most gripping." --Entertainment Weekly

"A brave retelling of one of the most important events in U.S. military history." --People

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