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Kevin Maurer

KEVIN MAURER is an award-winning journalist and the bestselling coauthor, with Mark Owen, of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden. He has covered special operations forces for a decade. He has been embedded with the Special Forces in Afghanistan six times, spent a month in 2006 with special operations units in east Africa, and has embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq and Haiti. He is the author of four books, including several about special operations.

Rock Force
American Radical
Hunter Killer
No Hero
Lions of Kandahar
No Easy Day
Hunting Che
Gentlemen Bastards
No Way Out
Valleys of Death

Books

Rock Force
American Radical
Hunter Killer
No Hero
Lions of Kandahar
No Easy Day
Hunting Che
Gentlemen Bastards
No Way Out
Valleys of Death

20 Years Later: September 11th

This year Americans will commemorate the life-changing events of September 11, 2001, twenty years ago. In addition to tributes to those who lost their lives, including the traditional reading of names, and honoring the heroes of that day, many will ruminate about the ongoing war on terror that’s since taken place. The expected complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan by 9/11 of this year as ordered by President Biden will have readers refocused on all that has transpired over the past 20 years. 

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