Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the MasterMind of 9/11 to Justice

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1982176520 ISBN13: 9781982176525 Release Date: September 2021 Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster Length: 368 Pages Weight: 1.25 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6" #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