#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Following Chris Wallace's "riveting" (The New York Times) and
"propulsive" (Time) first book Countdown 1945 comes a deeply
reported, revelatory, and thrillingly told account of the final months
of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
On August 27, 2010, three CIA officers ask for a private meeting with
CIA Director Leon Panetta. During that secret session, they tell Panetta
that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a
three-story house at the end of a dead-end street in Abbottabad,
Pakistan. But they say it's more than a house--it's a heavily protected
fortress. No one in the meeting says the name bin Laden. They don't have
to. Everyone understands that finally, after nearly a decade, maybe,
just maybe, they've found the world's most wanted man.
In Countdown bin Laden, celebrated journalist and anchor of Fox News
Sunday Chris Wallace delivers a vivid account of the final eight months
of intelligence gathering, national security strategizing, and
meticulous military planning that leads to the climactic mission when
SEAL Team Six closes in on its target.
The book delivers new information collected from Wallace's in-depth
interviews with more than a dozen central figures, including Admiral
William H. McRaven--leader of the operation in Pakistan--as well as CIA
Director Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense
Secretary Robert Gates, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, and the
SEAL Team Six special operator who kills Osama bin Laden. Wallace also
brings to life the human elements of this story, talking to families who
lost loved ones on 9/11, sharing what relatives of SEAL Team Six went
through, and bringing us inside the tense Situation Room during the
raid.
Countdown bin Laden is a historical thriller filled with intrigue,
cinematic action, and fresh reporting about the race to apprehend and
bring to justice the mastermind of the most consequential terrorist
attack in American history.
