Only five days ago this blog reported that Mark Owen’s account of his Navy SEAL mission to capture Osama Bin Laden was a bestseller, due to be published on 11th of September. However, Penguin’s Dutton imprint has moved up the publishing date.
The book is getting coverage all over the country for the new details it reveals, including that Bin Laden was already dead when the SEALs entered his bedroom in the compound. The publisher and author have also been criticized for not providing the government with a copy of the book before announcing it on August 22.
The first printing of the book is now 575,000 copies, up from the original 300,000.
The book is still No. 1 on the Amazon Bestselling Chart.
GalleyCat yesterday reported that Benjamin Black (alternative penname of John Banville) is set to make his screen debut on BBC One.
Meanwhile, Banville, as Benjamin Black, is currently working on reviving Raymond Chandler’s Detective Philip Marlowe, a story which is slated for publication in 2013.
Penguin is set to publish a first-person account of the mission which killed Osama Bin Laden, the Bookseller announced yesterday.
The book is titled No Easy Day: The Only Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden, and is written by the pseudonymous Mark Owen, a Navy SEAL who was among the first to enter the Abbottabad compound where Bin Laden was hiding.
It will be released on September 11th. Penguin describes it as “an essential piece of modern history”.
Despite the anonymity of the author, Fox News reported that they discovered his real identity — a 36-year-old from Alaska. The US Penguin imprint Dutton, which will be simultaneously publishing the book there, asked the media to withhold his name claiming it risked his personal security. US Military officials confirmed they had not vetted the contents of the book before its release was announced.