A Quick Look: No Easy Day

Actual rating: 3.5 stars.

I’m not going to take a lot of time on this book. Overall, it was good. Not great.

The writing is relatively simple. The good side of that is ease of understanding; he explains things in such a way that even non-military folks can understand it. It wasn’t beautiful prose–just nice and easy. That’s fine.

I liked that he included some of the fringe contributors (example: female CIA Analyst) and their role and reaction to UBL’s demise.

I thought that the author was a little unprofessional in his handling of a few things. It lowered my opinion of him a notch. I still appreciate what he did, of course.  But it marred the story unnecessarily.

If you’d like to get a small peek at what it’s like to be a SEAL, and also get some insight into the Bin Laden raid, it’s a good read.