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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 958.1047
EAN: 9780312384395
ISBN: 0312384394
Label: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: October 06, 2008
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: October 06, 2008
Sales Rank: 370
Studio: St. Martin's Press
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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 first eyewitness account of the Battle of Tora Bora, and the 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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Rating:  - Excellent but frustrating
Provides excellent insight into the inside operations of a special operations unit, the nitty gritty of dealing with incompetent and untrusty warlords and human intel, and the frustrations of being constrained by politicians to engage in what is viewed on the ground as effective action to kill Bin Laden.
We, as a nation, are truly indebted to Dalton Fury, Delta Force, and other special operations and military personnel for their sacrifice and commitment to the United States. Its too bad some of our political leaders do not have the imagination to utilize them most effectively.
Rating: - Kudos for kill bin laden
First of all, if Dalton Fury is the author's real name he was born to be Delta! This book was a great docu-read. Not only was it excellent in historical content, but it also provides tremendous context as well. In America we are blessed with the bravest most unselfish warriors and the worst self-serving politicians. Unfortunately all our Presidents start off as politicians and seldom as warriors. Which is why they continue to second guess the warriors in which we entrust our country's security. Kill Bin Laden, as it's title implies, is a pretty straight forward account of the mission to root out and kill the head of Al-Qaeda in response to their cowardly attack on America. This accurate (finally) account of what really happened in Tora Bora should not only be required reading of every voting aged American, but a dog-earred copy should be within arm's reach of every Commander-in-Chief. I'm sure it's on the shelf in all special forces training libraries.
Rating: - The best book yet on special ops in the "Long War"
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.
Rating: - An instant classic in its genre
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.
Rating: - Exciting Read
This is a really good book. It reads like an action novel. I highly recommend it.
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