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Manhunt : The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--From 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter L.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
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- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780307955579
- Book Title
- Manhunt : the Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--From 9/11 to Abbottabad
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Terrorism, Intelligence & Espionage, Military / United States, United States / 21st Century, Political, Criminology
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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The gripping account of the decade-long hunt for the world's most wanted man. It was only a week before 9/11 that Peter Bergen turned in the manuscript of Holy War, Inc ., the story of Osama bin Laden--whom Bergen had once interviewed in a mud hut in Afghanistan--and his declaration of war on America. The book became a New York Times bestseller and the essential portrait of the most formidable terrorist enterprise of our time. Now, in Manhunt, Bergen picks up the thread with this taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of bin Laden. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where American forces came startlingly close to capturing him, and of the fugitive leader's attempts to find a secure hiding place. As the only journalist to gain access to bin Laden's Abbottabad compound before the Pakistani government demolished it, Bergen paints a vivid picture of bin Laden's grim, Spartan life in hiding and his struggle to maintain control of al-Qaeda even as American drones systematically picked off his key lieutenants. Half a world away, CIA analysts haunted by the intelligence failures that led to 9/11 and the WMD fiasco pored over the tiniest of clues before homing in on the man they called "the Kuwaiti"--who led them to a peculiar building with twelve-foot-high walls and security cameras less than a mile from a Pakistani military academy. This was the courier who would unwittingly steer them to bin Laden, now a prisoner of his own making but still plotting to devastate the United States. Bergen takes us inside the Situation Room, where President Obama considers the COAs (courses of action) presented by his war council and receives conflicting advice from his top advisors before deciding to risk the raid that would change history--and then inside the Joint Special Operations Command, whose "secret warriors," the SEALs, would execute Operation Neptune Spear. From the moment two Black Hawks take off from Afghanistan until bin Laden utters his last words, Manhunt reads like a thriller. Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence, and the military, this is the definitive account of ten years in pursuit of bin Laden and of the twilight of al-Qaeda.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0307955575
ISBN-13
9780307955579
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110987063
Product Key Features
Book Title
Manhunt : the Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--From 9/11 to Abbottabad
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Terrorism, Intelligence & Espionage, Military / United States, United States / 21st Century, Political, Criminology
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hv6430.B55b473 2012
Reviews
"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 re-creates 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." --Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post "A gripping read...Bergen has an eye for memorable close-ups. His narrative has authority...Packed with satisfying observations...Highly readable." -- The Economist "Some of the more illuminating sections of Manhunt concern the efforts of intelligence analysts to piece together a 'working theory' about Bin Laden's whereabouts...Also fascinating are the descriptions of internal debates within the Obama administration." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "Gripping...Dramatic...A masterful account of bin Laden's life and activities, how al Qaeda operated in the aftermath of Sept. 11, and the American government's success in tracking down the world's most notorious terrorist leader." --Joshua Sinai, Washington Times "Terrific...A fast-paced narrative that takes you into the search for the most-wanted man in human history." --Bruce Riedel, The Daily Beast "In Manhunt , Peter Bergen has produced a page-turner rich with new information and insight into the search for Bin Laden and his killing. Only Bergen, America's foremost counterterrorism writer, could have produced a book of such energy and authority --a triumph." -- STEVE COLL , author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 "Ten years of grit, intelligent hard work, and daring led to Operation Neptune Spear, and Bergen captures it all in a story that is both a riveting page turner and a definitive history . Revealing details of bin Laden's last years in self-imposed prison, the debates of the CIA analysts who tracked him, and the training of the SEALs who killed him, Manhunt is essential reading for anyone who wants to know the real story of how the world's most wanted terrorist was finally brought to justice ." -- ERIC GREITENS , author of The Heart and The Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL "With masterly reporting , Peter Bergen takes us where we've never been: behind the high walls of Osama bin Laden's last hideout and behind the scenes of the heroic and painstaking hunt for the Al Qaeda mastermind. Manhunt is a thrilling read ." -- ANDERSON COOPER, CNN anchor, "In Manhunt , Peter Bergen has produced a page-turner rich with new information and insight into the search for Bin Laden and his killing. Only Bergen, America's foremost counterterrorism writer, could have produced a book of such energy and authority --a triumph." -- STEVE COLL , author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 "Ten years of grit, intelligent hard work, and daring led to Operation Neptune Spear, and Bergen captures it all in a story that is both a riveting page turner and a definitive history . Revealing details of bin Laden's last years in self-imposed prison, the debates of the CIA analysts who tracked him, and the training of the SEALs who killed him, Manhunt is essential reading for anyone who wants to know the real story of how the world's most wanted terrorist was finally brought to justice ." -- ERIC GREITENS , author of The Heart and The Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL "With masterly reporting , Peter Bergen takes us where we've never been: behind the high walls of Osama bin Laden's last hideout and behind the scenes of the heroic and painstaking hunt for the Al Qaeda mastermind. Manhunt is a thrilling read ." -- ANDERSON COOPER, CNN anchor
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2012-004258
Dewey Decimal
363.325/16092
Dewey Edition
23
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