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| Navy SEAL bin Laden book out-selling ‘50 Shades’ on Amazon Posted: 03 Sep 2012 04:57 PM PDT  Cover of "No Easy" Day. — All rights reserved The unauthorised book, which has caused the US Government to threaten legal action on the grounds of non-disclosure of government secrets, is already out-selling the hugely popular Fifty Shades erotica book series. The hardcover edition of "No Easy Day" officially becomes available in the United States on Tuesday, September 4. Amazon.com's best-seller list includes pre-orders. "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden," is written by a Navy SEAL operative under the pseudonym Mark Owen. His real name, Matt Bissonnette, was revealed shortly after news broke that the first-hand account of the daring operation on the al Qaeda leader's compound in Pakistan last year was to be published. Reuters obtained an advance copy of the book from the publisher, Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Group USA. The Pentagon has threatened legal action against Bissonnette for alleged violation of non-disclosure agreements because the manuscript was not submitted for a pre-publication security review. Bissonnette's attorney responded that the subject matter of his book was not covered by non-disclosure agreements he has signed. Bissonnette wrote that he decided to do the book because details of the raid that were being leaked by others in government were wrong. The controversy around "No Easy Day" will be further amplified by a follow-up e-book called "No Easy Op" co-authored by unidentified former Special Operations members from a group called Special Operations Forces Situation Report, or SOFREP. The book claims to provide analysis of the politics behind "No Easy Day" and to provide new insider information that has not previously been provided to the media. — Reuters |
| Author and aviator Richard Bach injured in plane crash Posted: 01 Sep 2012 08:31 PM PDT CAMANO ISLAND (Washington), Sept 2 — Richard Bach, a pilot and author of the 1970s bestselling book "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," was seriously injured when he flipped his small aircraft on landing at an island in north-western Washington state authorities said yesterday. Bach, 76, clipped power lines with the landing gear of his 2008 Easton Gilbert Searey as he tried to land on a grass airstrip on San Juan Island, said Michael McElrath, the dispatcher for the San Juan County Sheriff's Office. The crash left Bach suspended upside down and strapped to his harness in the single-engine plane, McElrath said. A group of tourists found Bach and cut him loose from the wreckage. He was bleeding and had a "dent" in his head, Lucy Williams, one of the tourists, told the San Juan Islander, a local publication. Bach was transported by helicopter to Harborview Medical Centre in Seattle. A nursing supervisor said yesterday that he was listed in serious condition. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board were on San Juan Island yesterday to probe the cause of the crash, McElrath said, adding that Bach lived on nearby Orcas Island though it was unclear where he had taken off from. The plane was "heavily damaged" in the crash, McElrath said. Posts on Bach's official website indicated that he called his plane "Puff." Bach's novella "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," which was published in 1970 and topped the New York Times Best Sellers list two years later, tells the story of a daring seagull who pushes himself to become a phenomenal flyer and is expelled from his seagull clan. It was made into a movie in 1973. The author's other books include "Illusions" and "One." — Reuters |
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