KBL: KILL BIN LADEN tellS the tale of the hunt and capture of Bin Laden. John Weisman begins with immediate action and will capture the readers' attention and leave them unable to put down the book for the entirety of this story. The reader is taken from setting to setting, the author's rich narrative providing in-depth details and shocking tales. The reader can literally picture Pakistan, Afghanistan, Washington D.C., etc...
How far would you go to secure your country's safety? The author provides a view into the minds of the team that took down Bin Laden and their perseverance and extreme determination. The reader will love getting to know the team since they each seem so real and could be your next-door neighbor. Weisman is amazing at keeping the pace of the novel very fast while still managing to provide all of the necessary details in a way that enables the reader to remember.
Each and every event will leave the reader on the edge of their toes. The reader will anticipate and turn the pages quickly to discover the what happens next. The time, location, and date are provided for every chapter, allowing the reader to picture even more of the plot. If you are a reader who enjoys real events told from the perspective of characters, then KBL: KILL BIN LADEN is the book for you. It may seem like it would be anticlimactic due to the obvious fact the reader should know how this book ends; however, that serves to make the book even more exciting and the reader even more wary as they must anticipate every event. Pick up KBL: KILL BIN LADEN to truly live in the moment with the team that ended the life of America's number one threat.
The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling military
thriller writer and coauthor of the bestselling Rogue
Warrior series goes beyond the headlines and worldwide
speculation in this pulse-pounding fictional account of the
breathtaking hunt for the worldโs most wanted terrorist,
Usama Bin Laden
KBL
Some truths are better told in fiction. In this
riveting novel drawn from actual events and based on
real-life heroes whose identities remain
classifiedโincluding soldiers, sailors, intelligence
operatives, technocrats, analysts, and policymakersโJohn
Weisman fills in the blanks of what may have happened during
the hunt and capture of Usama Bin Laden.
Moving
from the political battlefields of Washington, D.C., and the
secure, seventh-floor suite of the CIA director in Langley,
Virginia, to the dusty streets of Peshawar, Lahore, and
Abbottabad, Pakistan, to the rough Afghan interior, to the
Middle East and western Europe, this fictional narrative
brings to life the drama behind SEAL Team 6โs breathtaking
raid in which Bin Ladenโa.k.a. Crankshaft, a.k.a. al Mas
(the Diamond), the ghost, the wraith, the grail for
counterterrorists for more than a decadeโmet his fate.
In the Oval Office, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the State
Department, Washingtonโs power brokers, the president, the
director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and the
Secretary of Defense conduct secret meetings, battle for
political supremacy, and make life-and-death choices.
Meanwhile, at an anonymous naval installation just south of
Virginia Beach, Virginia, the Naval Special Warfare
Development Group trains in secret for the mission of a
lifetime. And at Vallhalla Base, the CIAโs safe house in
Abbottabad, dedicated intelligence officers gather intel
critical to locating and capturing the elusive Bin Laden.
KBL: Kill Bin Laden probes the hearts and
minds of Americaโs secret warriors, revealing what the job
means to them and the toll it takes. Here are the Navy SEALs
who can never admit what unit they work for; the CIA
paramilitary operators who risk their lives among the enemy,
putting themselves in harmโs way knowing their existence
will be denied if they are killed or captured; and the elite
cadre of gritty leaders who bravely put country and security
above politics.
Filled with pulse-pounding
excitement and the tactics, intelligence tradecraft, and
operational sources and methods used in real-world CIA and
special-operations missions, KBL: Kill Bin Laden is a
thrill-a-minute dramatization that sets the standard for
adventure novels as it brilliantly imagines the action,
intrigue, and suspense of this real-life event and offers a
glimpse of the new face of warfare.
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