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NP_BryanPass t1_itj8g6f wrote
Reply to TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published. by GentPc
Mark Bowden, in writing his excellent book “The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden,” interviewed a number of Seal Team Six members, including Bissonnette.
Bissonnette declined, and instead wrote his own book on the raid, suspiciously calling himself ‘Mark Owen’ — most likely a means to great confusion between the two books.
Bowden’s book came out first, but he issued a second edition to explain his interactions with Bissonnette and update his account of the raid based on what was written in ‘No Easy Day’
NP_BryanPass t1_itkscnu wrote
Reply to comment by HereForGames in TIL That Matt Bissonnette, the former DEVGRU operator who, under the pseudonym Mark Owen, wrote the first book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was forced to turn over the almost $7 million he made from the book because he failed to get the book approved before it was published. by GentPc
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