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Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man By Dalton Fury St. Martin's Press; 320 pages...
...inconsistencies, inaccuracies and falsities which he says were perpetuated amid the hunt for Osama bin Laden in December 2001. Fury blames an "excitement-starved general public," a clueless intelligence community, an even more clueless press corps and the need to keep Delta Force operations classified for a misguided account of the operation that he calls "fantastic and exciting stuff, but utter hogwash...
...story, he acknowledges that the "world is interested" in learning of the events of bin Laden's non-capture - an about-face seeming to serve mostly Fury's need to pat himself and the other Delta fighters on the back for more than 300 pages. His detailed account borders on idolatry not only for himself, but also for his fellow comrades - "the boys" as he repeatedly refers to them...
Penguin Group USA seems to be leading the financial field when it comes to big bucks and celebrity authors. Within a span of 48 hours, Penguin imprints scooped up three of the hottest gets, shelling out millions in advances. Andrew Ross Sorkin will write a behind-the-scenes account of the Wall Street crisis, Too Big to Fail, for Viking, while his New York Times colleague Joe Nocera, along with Vanity Fair contributing editor Bethany McLean, will do a long-term take on the crisis for Portfolio, with their advance rumored to be as much as $1.6 million. Roger Lowenstein...
...approaches: do it quickly or wait and take the longer-term view," says Will Weisser, associate publisher of Portfolio, a Penguin imprint, who says most of their business authors are being asked to expedite books already under way. One is Eric Janszen, whose The Post Catastrophe Economy, a historical account of the economy and where it is headed, was supposed to be published in August 2009. With the crisis deepening, Portfolio asked Janszen to hurry up; the book is now set to come out early next year. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the best-selling Rich Dad, Poor Dad, is working...