Following Chris Wallace's "riveting" (The New York Times) and "propulsive" (Time) first book Countdown 1945 comes a deeply reported, revelatory, and thrillingly told account of the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. On August 27, 2010, three CIA officers ask for a private meeting with CIA Director Leon Panetta. During that secret session, they tell Panetta that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a three-story house...

From the preeminent chronicler of our military and Special Forces comes a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Over the ten years following the attacks of September 11, 2001, America's war with al Qaeda demanded an innovative approach. Step by step, Mark Bowden describes the development of a new tactical strategy - the right weapon to go after bin Laden had finally evolved. It was time for the finish. (Bestseller)

"Veteran CIA officer Duane Evans is dispatched to Pakistan to "get something going in the South," still under the Taliban's sway and al-Qa'ida. With no "Southern Alliance" for the U.S. to support, a new strategy is called for. This is the true story of Evans's unexpected journey from the pristine halls of Langley to the badlands of southern Afghanistan. Within hours after he watched the horrors of 9/11 unfold during a chance visit to FBI Headquarters,...

For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.

On May 2, 2011 a ten-year manhunt drew to a deadly end as the men of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group (a.k.a. SEAL Team Six) closed in on their prey, Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. Flown from Afghanistan by Army Special Operations Commands 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) and evading detection by the Pakistani military, two US helicopters flew towards the compound...

Poruszająca i realistyczna relacja Roberta O'Neilla, komandosa Navy SEAL, który ma na koncie ponad czterysta akcji, w tym uratowanie Marcusa Luttrella (jedynego żołnierza SEAL ocalałego po afgańskiej operacji "Redwing"), odbicie porwanego przez piratów kapitana Richarda Philipsa czy likwidację najbardziej poszukiwanego terrorysty świata, Osamy bin Ladena, który zginął z jego ręki. O'Neill opowiada też o szkoleniu podstawowym oraz trudnych...