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The Best American Crime Writing 2006by Mark Bowden , Thomas H. Cook, Otto PenzlerISBN 0060815523 (0-06-081552-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern Warby Mark BowdenISBN 0140288503 (0-14-028850-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War'Book summary:Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and how they fought their way out.
This is the story of war.
Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S. Special Forces and puts you in the middle of the most intense firelight American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam war.
Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3, 1993, the soldiers of Task Form Ranger was send on a mission to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night, locked in a desperate struggle to kill or be killed.
When the unit was finally rescued the following morning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and dozens more badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse; more than five hundred felled and over a thousand wounded. Award-winning literary journalist Mark Bowden's dramatic narrative captures this harrowing ordeal through the eyes of the young men who fought that day. He draws on his extensive interviews of participants from both sides -- as well as classified combat video and radio transcripts -- to bring their stories to life.
Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is a riveting look at the terror and exhilaration of combat destined to become a classic of war reporting. [via]
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- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0451203933 (0-451-20393-3)
Softcover, Signet - Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0552147508 (0-552-14750-8)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0552999652 (0-552-99965-2)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0451205146 (0-451-20514-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0593045386 (0-593-04538-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Black Hawk Down: ISBN 0606229302 (0-606-22930-2)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0613462122 (0-613-46212-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Black Hawk Down: ISBN 0783889836 (0-7838-8983-6)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 079272545X (0-7927-2545-X)
Hardcover, BBC Audiobooks America - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0140288503 (0-14-028850-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0451203933 (0-451-20393-3)
Bringing the Heatby Mark BowdenISBN 0517158213 (0-517-15821-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Doctor Dealerby Mark BowdenISBN 0802137571 (0-8021-3757-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Doctor Dealer'Book summary:Doctor Dealer is the story of Larry Lavin, a bright, charismatic young man who rose from his working-class upbringing to win a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, earn Ivy League college and dental degrees, and buy his family a house in one of Philadelphia's most exclusive suburbs. But behind the facade of his success was a dark secret -- at every step of the way he was building the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate over $60 million in annual sales. Award-winning journalist Mark Bowden tells the saga of Lavin's rise and fall with the gripping, novelistic narrative style that won him international acclaim as the author of the New York Times best-seller Black Hawk Down. "Immensely readable . . . eye-popping . . . a smoothly crafted, exciting, can't-put-it-down book." -- Louisville New Voice[via] -
Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Millionby Mark BowdenISBN 0802140211 (0-8021-4021-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million'Book summary:Told in riveting, novelistic detail by the author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down, Finders Keepers is the widely acclaimed true story of an incredible week in the life of Joey Coyle, a down-and-out longshoreman from working-class South Philadelphia. One afternoon, just blocks from his home, Coyle found two curious yellow containers containing $1.2 million in unmarked money from a casino. They had just fallen off the back of an armored truck. Even before news of the missing money exploded across the headlines, Detective Pat Laurenzi was working around the clock to track it down. Joey Coyle, meanwhile, was off on a bungling misadventure, sharing his windfall with everyone from his girlfriend to total strangers to the two neighborhood kids who were with him when he found it. Loaded with intrigue and suspense, Finders Keepers is the remarkable tale of an ordinary man faced with an extraordinary moral dilemma, and the fascinating reactions of the family, friends, and neighbors to whom he turns.[via]More editions of Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million:
- Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million: ISBN 0792727096 (0-7927-2709-6)
Hardcover, BBC Audiobooks America - Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million: ISBN 0786248920 (0-7862-4892-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million: ISBN 0802140211 (0-8021-4021-1)
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- Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million: ISBN 0792727096 (0-7927-2709-6)
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Guadalcanal Diaryby Richard Tregaskis, Mark BowdenISBN 0679640231 (0-679-64023-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guadalcanal Diary'Book summary:In the summer and fall of 1942, American Marines landed on the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal and began the slow, bloody work of defeating the Japanese empire. Their landing was significant not only for the outcome of World War II, but also for the conduct of war ever since, for the invasion of Guadalcanal marked the first time that a combined air, sea, and land assault had ever been attempted. It is for that reason that tacticians and military historians study the months-long battle today, and their primary guide to that conflict is Richard Tregaskis's extraordinary Guadalcanal Diary.
A volunteer combat correspondent, Tregaskis braved much danger to bring the story of the fighting to American readers. But he was not one to celebrate his own exploits, and in the pages of his book, he centers on the brave young men from all over the United States who fought and died in appalling numbers. His attention to detail yields arresting descriptions of attacks and counterattacks, of moments of low morale and of exaltation, of moments of quiet behind the lines and of sheer terror at the very point of engagement. Tregaskis's style is unadorned and matter-of-fact, and his present-tense narrative places the reader in the thick of the battle during those "hopeless weeks."
The direct literary ancestor of books of military reportage such as Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down and Michael Herr's Dispatches, Guadalcanal Diary is an exemplary work of journalism, and as vivid a portrait of men under fire as has ever been committed to print. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Miltiant Islamby Mark BowdenISBN 0802143032 (0-8021-4303-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Miltiant Islam'Book summary:From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a riveting, definitive chronicle of the Iran hostage crisis, Americas first battle with militant Islam. On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans hostage, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the hostages cells and inside the Oval Office for meetings with President Carter and his exhausted team. We travel to international capitals where shadowy figures held clandestine negotiations, and to the deserts of Iran, where a courageous, desperate attempt to rescue the hostages exploded into tragic failure. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides. Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world.[via]More editions of Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Miltiant Islam:
In the Company of Heroes: A True Storyby Mark BowdenISBN 0399150609 (0-399-15060-9)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlawby Mark BowdenISBN 0142000957 (0-14-200095-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw'Book summary:Readers of Black Hawk Down know Mark Bowden can tell an exciting story about as well as any writer at work today. Killing Pablo is further proof. It describes the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, a notorious Colombian drug lord who became one of the narcotic trade's first billionaires. Pablo--Bowden refers to him by his first name throughout the book--started out as a petty thief and wound up running a massive smuggling empire. At his height in the 1980s, he owned fleets of boats and planes, plus 19 separate residences in Medellin, each with its own helipad. Violence marked everything he did: "He wasn't an entrepreneur, and he wasn't even an especially talented businessman. He was just ruthless." He bought off police, politicians, and judges throughout his country, and killed many others who wouldn't cooperate. The Colombian government tried to capture him, but without much luck; he evaded them time after time. "Now and then the police achieved enough surprise to catch him, literally, with his pants down. In [1988], about one thousand national police raided one of his mansions," writes Bowden. "Pablo fled in his underwear, avoiding the police cordon on foot." He got away, again, but his days were numbered. He was making powerful enemies in both Colombia and the United States. The final straw probably came when Pablo's men murdered a popular politician and, three months later, planted a bomb on a plane, killing 110 people, including two Americans.
The bulk of Killing Pablo describes what happened when the U.S. government put its resources behind the hunt for Pablo. Bowden describes the search in gripping detail, from the massive electronic-surveillance effort to bureaucratic infighting between rival U.S. agencies. This is an outstanding work of reportorial journalism, too: in the epilogue, Bowden drops tantalizing hints that it was an American--not a Colombian--who delivered the killing shot to Pablo in 1993. Readers looking for a real-life thriller--or any kind of thriller, for that matter--won't do much better than Killing Pablo. [via]
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Once There Was a Warby John Steinbeck, Mark BowdenISBN 0143104799 (0-14-310479-9)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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Pitt Rivers: The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, Dcl, Frs, Fsaby Mark BowdenISBN 0521400775 (0-521-40077-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, And Beastsby Mark BowdenISBN 0143036734 (0-14-303673-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdadby David Zucchino, Mark BowdenISBN 080214179X (0-8021-4179-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Unravelling the Landscapeby Mark BowdenISBN 075241447X (0-7524-1447-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unravelling the Landscape'Book summary:[via]Referring to recent surveys by the staff of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and their colleagues, Mark Bowdenan archaeological field investigator and head of the Swindon field teamdispels the myths that survey is too complex and difficult, or that it is only a second-best to excavation.More editions of Unravelling the Landscape:
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