Publisher Description
From the author of the New York Times bestselling Holy War, Inc., this is the definitive account of the decade-long manhunt that killed the world’s most wanted man, Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda expert and CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen paints a multidimensional picture of the hunt for bin Laden over the past decade, including the operation that killed him. Other key elements of the book will include: A careful account of Obama’s decision-making process as the raid was planned The fascinating story of a group of CIA analysts—largely women—who never gave up assembling the tiniest clues about OBL’s whereabouts The untold and action-packed history of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and the SEALs An analysis of what the death of OBL means for al Qaeda, and for Obama’s legacy. Just as Too Big to Fail captured, in riveting detail, the anatomy of this decade’s financial disaster, so too is Manhunt one of the key stories of this decade: the authoritative, immersive account of the operation that killed the man who organized the largest mass murder in American history.
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“Virtually crackles
with insider details…Bergen’s Pakistani sources gave him new insight into bin
Laden’s home life…The details of the SEAL raid itself…[make] for compelling
reading. Bergen puts the raid into a broader intelligence framework and deftly
recreates the heart-thumping tension of that night and the calculations that
went into pulling off the daring mission…Bergen’s three other books have become
required reading for national security buffs and counterterrorism reporters.
But Manhunt is different. It goes to
a higher level…Bergen has accomplished a journalistic feat: He manages to make
the story of bin Laden’s end sound new. He has put together a real-life
thriller that will be a must-read for years to come.”—
Washington Post
