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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 958.1047
EAN num: 9780312384395
ISBN number: 0312384394
Label: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: October 06, 2008
Publishing house: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: October 06, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 263
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The mission was to kill the most wanted man in the world--an operation of such magnitude that it couldn’t be handled by just any military or intelligence force. The best America had to offer was needed. As such, the task was handed to roughly forty members of America’s supersecret counterterrorist unit formerly known as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta; more popularly, the elite and mysterious unit Delta Force.
The American generals were flexible. A swatch of hair, a drop of blood, or simply a severed finger wrapped in plastic would be sufficient. Delta's orders were to go into harm's way and prove to the world bin Laden had been terminated.
These Delta warriors had help: a dozen of the British Queen’s elite commandos, another dozen or so Army Green Berets, and six intelligence operatives from the CIA who laid the groundwork by providing cash, guns, bullets, intelligence, and interrogation skills to this clandestine military force. Together, this team waged modern siege of epic proportions against bin Laden and his seemingly impenetrable cave sanctuary burrowed deep inside the Spin Ghar Mountain range in eastern Afghanistan.
Over the years, since the battle ended, scores of news stories have surfaced offering tidbits of information about what actually happened in Tora Bora. Most of it is conjecture and speculation.
This is the real story of the operation, the very first eyewitness account of the Battle of Tora Bora, and the very first book to detail just how close Delta Force came to capturing bin Laden, how close U.S. bombers and fighter aircraft came to killing him, and exactly why he slipped through our fingers. Lastly, this is an extremely rare inside look at the shadowy world of Delta Force and a detailed account of these warriors in battle.
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Dalton Fury has produced a great first-hand account of the dark side of the Global War on Terror in Kill Bin Laden. It describes in the most intimate detail possible--often difficult given the sensitive, classified nature of the mission--the manner in which America's very best soldiers, the operators from DELTA (aka The Unit, aka The Combat Applications Group) went about stalking for the most wanted terrorist in history. The story is both fascinating and thrilling. Of course, the mission ended a failure when the Afghans allowed bin Laden to escape, and one is left contemplating how different the story, and later history, would be if Fury's Delta squadron had been able to conduct their operation as originally planned.
The book is, by and large, very well written. Fury's prose is complex and articulate, unlike the stories by so many other ex-military writers (Marcus Luttrel's Lone Survivor comes to mind--great story, poor writing there). The only drawback are the annecdotal bits about Fury's men, which all are interesting and deserve inclusion, but at interspersed throughout the book almost at random, and often serve to break the narative rather than support it. Yet the book's incredible story and generally great writing more than make up for this drawback.
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Holy Moses. If you don't take a deep breath and shed a couple of tears after reading the last page, make sure to check for a pulse. Unless you work in special ops. Then, well, hey, I'm writing to the general public.
Brilliant is an understatement; what's a reviewer to write? The author and his friends have saved people like you and me a thousand times, and we never even knew it! That is, until now. Do you believe it? Do you doubt it? You will do both, gentle reader, then come down on the side of faith after reading this heart stopper.
Mission accomplished, Dalton Fury. We do not deserve you or your ilk, but we sure thank God for creating such a rare and interesting breed.
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This is a really good book. It reads like an action novel. I highly recommend it.
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This is a page turner....I could not put the book down. Goes into great depth about the very first battle in the Tora Bora Mountians after 9-11 with actually eye witness who was part of battle
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So many times people say "I could not put this book down." This is the very first book I have ever read in one sitting from "cover to cover!" I am fascinated with the topography of Afghanistan and fighting a war there has to be a real challenge for our troops. This story drops you off in the mountains of Afghanistan where the entire region is filled with tribal fighters and the Taliban. Exciting, riveting and impossible to put this book down without finishing it. My advice, visit the bathroom before you start to read Kill Bin Laden!
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