Synopses & Reviews
The second book by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen, following his multimillion-copy classic about the bin Laden mission No Easy Day, in which he tells the stories from his career that were most personal to him and that made him the operator and the person he is today
While Mark Owens instant New York Times bestseller No Easy Day focused on the high-profile targets and headline-grabbing chapters of the authors career, No Hero will be an account of the most personally meaningful missions from Owens thirteen years as a SEAL, including the moments in which he learned the most about himself and his teammates, in both success and failure.
Mark Owen describes his intentions for his second book best: I want No Hero to offer something most books on war dont: the intimate side of it, the personal struggles and hardships and what I learned from them. The stories in No Hero will be a testament to my teammates and to all the other active and former SEALs who have dedicated their lives to freedom. In our community, we are constantly taught to mentor the younger generation and to pass the lessons and values weve learned on to others so that they can do the same to the guys coming up after them. This is what I plan to do for the reader of No Hero.”
Every bit as action-packed as No Easy Day, and featuring stories from the training ground to the battlefield, No Hero offers readers an unparalleled close-up view of the experiences and values that make Mark Owen and the men he served with capable of executing the missions we read about in the headlines.
Review
Praise for
No Easy Day
"This harrowing, minute-by-minute account by one of the highly trained members of Navy SEAL Team Six is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping, taking the reader through the mountains of Afghanistan and inside the slightly dilapidated-looking family compound in Pakistan."
- Entertainment Weekly
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and#8220;The Bin Laden story is the marquee event in No Easy Day, of course. But the formative steps in the authorand#8217;s own story are just as gripping.and#8221;
and#8211;Janet Maslin, New York Times
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and#8220;The book is a stomach-twisting close-up look at that historic mission in Abbottabad, told from the point of view of a super-elite member of SEAL Team Six who fired a bullet into bin Laden and helped carry away the corpse. Written in clean, polished prose... No Easy Day often reads like a gripping novel as the author recounts remarkably vivid details... No Easy Day puts you right there for every tense moment.and#8221;
and#8211;Entertainment Weekly
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" ...A cast of characters, including Owen himself, artfully drawn, yet painfully human, passionate descriptions of a lifestyle that few are privy to, as well as its breathlessly paced, inexorable march toward an inevitableand#160;endingand#8230;it's a remarkably intimate glimpse into what motivates men striving to join an elite fighting force like the SEALS and#8212; and what keeps themand#160;there.and#8221;
-Associated Press
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and#8220;Make no mistake: No Easy Day is an important historic document. Think if we had a first-person account of the last minutes of Hitler in his bunker. No Easy Day is brisk and compelling in its telling of the training, execution and immediate aftermath of the Bin Laden mission by the elite Seal Team Six.and#8221;
-Los Angeles Times
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and#8220;[Mark Owen] has given us a brave retelling of one of the most important events in U.S. military history.and#8221;and#160;
-People Magazine
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and#8220;The writing is fast-paced, and Owen and Maurer tell some good yarns in a conversational style. They also neatly capture the camaraderie, the pranks, the constant training and the evident love that the men of SEAL Team 6 have for their jobs."
-Washington Post
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Praise forand#160;No Hero "Simple, well-told stories that will interest general readers and certainly anyone contemplating a career in special operations." -and#160;Kirkus Reviews
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“Owen emphasizes the selflessness and service of his fellow SEALs, along with the lessons he learned, in a book that is sure to appeal to the many fans of in-the-trenches special forces memoirs.”—Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
The companion volume to the multimillion-copy classic No Easy Day by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team Six operator.
Mark Owens instant #1 New York Times bestseller, No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden, focused on the high-profile targets and headline-grabbing chapters of the authors thirteen years as a Navy SEAL. His follow-up, No Hero, is an account of Owens most personally meaningful missions, missions that never made headlines, including the moments in which he learned the most about himself and his teammates in both success and failure.
Featuring stories from the training ground to the battlefield, No Hero offers readers a never-before-seen close-up view of the experiences and values that make Mark Owen and the SEALs he served with capable of executing the missions that make history.
About the Author
MARK OWEN