Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander - Gary Berntsen

Personal fascination. These books seem to come by the truck load and are written (or ghost written) by people who just basically tell their accounts of what happened out in the field of war. Sometimes unlikely serious films come out of them (Syriana from See No Evil) or TV series are made (The Unit from Inside Delta Forces). Jawbreaker was suppose to have been adapted into a film, but it's still a fun read for me. The world of Special Forces and Military Ops has endless interest. The subject in this book is the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Considering the headline grabbing subject of the book, one would expect interpretation and ideas into why he hasn't been caught, but Jawbreaker is just an account of one of the better chances we had to catch him and didn't. The book even skirts the chance to make a big deal out of that missed opportunity. There are a few political overtones, but not many. It is military perspective of a military mission. Since I have no problem with that, I considered this a decent read. I have even come to enjoy all the black blotches on pages detailing guarded information about missions and details that can't be made public. It's the sign of authenticity.