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September 4, 2012By Sarah Weinman

As NO EASY DAY Publishes, New Account Says Book Written When Author Was “Slighted” By Other SEALS

September 4, 2012By Sarah Weinman

Despite ongoing controversy and the threat of a government lawsuit (and Navy SEALS being pulled off active duty as a consequence), Dutton is publishing NO EASY DAY by “Mark Owen” (the pen name for the retired SEAL Matt Bissonnette) today as scheduled. But things got weirder over the weekend when a group of former Special Operations veterans released a short ebook of their own, NO EASY OP: The Unclassified Analysis of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden, as a $4.99 KDP exclusive. It claims Bissonnette (the Times, and the ebook, uses his real name throughout) was “willing to break the […]

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