Killing bin LADEN: The tale before Zero Dark Thirty and No Easy Day
Book Details
Author(s)James Brand
ISBN / ASINB00BUBB3AE
ISBN-13978B00BUBB3A9
Sales Rank971,330
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Feel a vicarious thrill from this adventure novel, hunting the treacherous perpetrators of the World Trade Center attach. This imaginative tale starts with the collapse of Tower Number Two, continues with the hunting of bin Laden and his group through South East Asia then ends with bin Laden’s killing and burial at sea.
Kit and Laura have escaped from the Trade Center with minutes to spare. They see the building they were in collapse with Kit’s best friend still inside. Kit suffers from post traumatic stress disorder, but through the dust he vows justice for the perpetrators of this act. Kit had worked with Osama and his Taliban as part of the CIA. Now the two were on opposite sides of the fight.
Kit starts on an epic journey with Laura and some old and new friends from India. Together they perform deeds of courage and daring. Initially some of Kit’s group has sympathy for the rebels and some don’t, but all of their minds change during the course of the book. Kit and his friend Zor take separate paths to momentous events one on one side of the Karakorum Mountains and one on the other.
In their pursuit of the Taliban, Kit’s group is aided in their quest by, the UAV Kit built, legendary plants and animals and satellite photos from Kit’s old friends in the CIA.
As in the James Brand’s Novel #1 “Secret of the Glades†there are airplane chases, crashes and daring aerial rescues.
The book’s characters find their lives inextricably entangled as their experiences illuminate the cataclysms that mark the wild Karakorum Mountains. From the planning in Laura’s computer room to the blood and smoke of battle, the character’s lives intertwine, propelling the reader into dramas of ever-increasing complexity.
As always with James Brand, the setting is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. With passion and the hand of a master, he brings us into mysteries that change our view of the world forever.
Kit and Laura have escaped from the Trade Center with minutes to spare. They see the building they were in collapse with Kit’s best friend still inside. Kit suffers from post traumatic stress disorder, but through the dust he vows justice for the perpetrators of this act. Kit had worked with Osama and his Taliban as part of the CIA. Now the two were on opposite sides of the fight.
Kit starts on an epic journey with Laura and some old and new friends from India. Together they perform deeds of courage and daring. Initially some of Kit’s group has sympathy for the rebels and some don’t, but all of their minds change during the course of the book. Kit and his friend Zor take separate paths to momentous events one on one side of the Karakorum Mountains and one on the other.
In their pursuit of the Taliban, Kit’s group is aided in their quest by, the UAV Kit built, legendary plants and animals and satellite photos from Kit’s old friends in the CIA.
As in the James Brand’s Novel #1 “Secret of the Glades†there are airplane chases, crashes and daring aerial rescues.
The book’s characters find their lives inextricably entangled as their experiences illuminate the cataclysms that mark the wild Karakorum Mountains. From the planning in Laura’s computer room to the blood and smoke of battle, the character’s lives intertwine, propelling the reader into dramas of ever-increasing complexity.
As always with James Brand, the setting is brilliantly researched and rendered, the action fast-moving, the characters rich in nuance and emotion. With passion and the hand of a master, he brings us into mysteries that change our view of the world forever.
