Best Selling Books by Mark Owen

Mark Owens veel geroemde Geen makkelijke dag, over de door hem geleide missie die de wereld verloste van Osama bin Laden, was een onmiddellijke bestseller. Maar in de dertien jaar dat Mark Owen leiding gaf aan seal Team Six, nam hij deel aan veel meer en veel grotere missies die ook van grote invloed waren op de wereldgeschiedenis. Niet alle missies waren even succesvol, maar zowel de successen als de mislukkingen dragen volgens Owen bij aan de perfect geoliede machine van de Seals, het elitekorps dat leeft bij het motto: ‘De enige makkelijke dag was gisteren.’ Al deze missies en ervaringen beschrijft Owen – op de openhartige manier die we van hem kennen – in dit nieuwe, spannende boek.

For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.

"This is a compilation of stories that cumulatively have become an explanation of how lucky and unlucky a person like me can be," Mark Owen Cope Sr. writes in the introduction to this book. In his seventy years of life, he has witnessed over and over again the manic whims of Fortune-often with hilarious consequences. Whether it''s the baseball bat he''d always wanted leading to the near-drowning of an old lady ("A Lovely Little Baseball Bat") or a former circus performer''s mobile home falling literally under the Arkansas Guarantee ("The Dog Poop Lady and the Arkansas Guarantee"), each story turns on those real-life twists of irony that are always stranger than fiction. Some of these anecdotes are jokes, others probe at darker points in Mr. Cope''s life, but throughout this collection of stories, as in life, the author never loses his sense of humor. Mark Owen Cope Sr., originally from Idaho, has lived across the United States, in California, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina. Since his teenage years, he''s worked a number of jobs, from electrician''s helper to air-conditioning repairman to mobile-home salesman to plumber (and everything in between)-jobs which have brought him into contact with the comical cast of characters that populates this book. In his youth, Mr. Cope spent two terms enlisted in the Air Force, working primarily in radio repair, photo interpretation, and intelligence. Mr. Cope has four children and survives his late wife, Betty, to whom he was married for more than forty-five years and to whom this book is dedicated.

This is a true story about a Christian Athlete''s purpose in life and how he accomplished God''s mission. Blake Christiaan LaForce gave himself to the Lord, then asked how he could help show others the way, well before he was diagnosed with life threatening blood cancer; acute lymphoblastic leukemia. God had already been working through Blake, for quite some time, and soon after the diagnosis Blake knew why he was stricken with leukemia. Blake painfully and obediently realized he was chosen, because God had a plan and mission for him. God works in mysterious ways and continues to work through Blake''s legacy for the better and benefit of us all. Blake''s journey and purpose in life is a heart wrenching story of Strong Faith, Obedience, Praise, Hope, Amazing Physical and Mental Strength, Stamina, Sheer Courage, Pride and True Love 4-1.

Lorsque Mark Owen survole en hélicoptère Abbottabad au Pakistan en mai 2011, il sait que cette mission sera la bonne. La cible : Oussama Ben Laden. Dans ce témoignage de choc, il raconte son travail hors du commun au sein des Navy SEAL, des soldats d''élite qui ont sillonné la planète pendant près de dix ans pour traquer l''homme le plus recherché du monde. Jusqu''à cette ultime mission où Mark a assisté en direct à la mort du leader d''Al-Qaïda.

Persoonlijk verslag van een lid van de Amerikaanse elite-eenheid die Osama bin Laden uitschakelde.

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