• The tactics, intelligence tradecraft, and operational sources and methods depicted in KBL: Kill Bin Laden are all drawn from real world CIA and special operation events.

• John Weisman is also a former journalist who worked in thirty-seven countries. More recently, he has war-gamed counterterrorist tactical scenarios and red-teamed State Department countersurveillance units.

• Weisman has long-term, deep connections to the worlds of intelligence and special operations. Since 2003 he has appeared on more than 130 radio and television shows as an expert on terrorism and intelligence matters. In the spring of 2005, he was invited by the German Government to lecture on the state of the U.S. Intelligence Community.  

• The author’s CIA short stories were twice included in Best American Mystery Stories, and he reviews books on intelligence and military affairs for the Washington Times and his analysis has appeared in AFIO’s periodical Intelligencer.
 
 
 
 

Some truths are better and perhaps more accurately portrayed in fiction. In this riveting thriller based on real events, John Weisman takes readers into the heads and inside the boots of the heroes who hunted and killed Usama Bin Laden, the men and women who sent them, and the anonymous intelligence operatives who made it all possible. Moving from the political battlefields of Washington, D.C. and CIA Headquarters to the dusty streets of Peshawar, Lahore, and Abbottabad Pakistan, and the rough Afghan interior, the Middle East and Western Europe, KBL:Kill Bin Laden is a fly-on-the-wall account of the drama and decisions that ultimately led elements of SEAL Team 6 to the anonymous Abbottabad compound where UBL met his fate.
 
Weisman depicts secret meetings, political rivalries, and life-or-death decisions. He takes readers inside the Oval Office, up to the secure, seventh-floor suite in Langley, Virginia, occupied by Director of Central Intelligence, and the clandestine base just south of Virginia Beach, Virginia, where the Naval Special Warfare Development Group trains in secret for the mission of a lifetime.
 
He also takes us inside the hearts and minds of America’s secret warriors: the Navy SEALs who can never admit what unit they work for; the CIA paramilitary operators who must work under the enemy’s nose without a net—who put themselves in harm’s way and know that their existence will be denied if they are killed or captured; and that small cadre of leaders with true grit who understand that politics cannot be considered when it comes to doing the right thing. KBL: Kill Bin Laden is a thrill-a-minute story of intrigue, suspense, and the new face of warfare that sets the standard for adventure.