This is a short, straightforward and apparently factual (I say "apparently" because the government has not really given us a detailed account of events to date) description of the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

Author Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff provides a brief rundown of the primary clues that finally led U.S. intelligence and the military to Bin Laden's hiding place, but the focus of the book is, of course, the raid that left the world's most wanted criminal dead.

That being said, the only thing I really learned here was that the special ops team used a dog to sniff out possible explosives as they made their way through the compound. Virtually all of the information to be found here was widely available on the internet and through various news media -- how else could the author, a man whose career as a rock journalist, music composer and screen/TV writer would seem to preclude him having access to some high-level source within the government or intelligence community, publish the book a mere four days following Bin Laden's death?

While the book is well-written, it really is a book that anyone could have written. Given the fact that the government couldn't keep its own story straight in the days following the raid, I can't put absolute faith in all of the details of any book written and published during those first four days.