Black Hawk Down MTI

by Mark Bowden

• ISBN13: 9780743509909
• ISBN10: 0743509900
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: Audio CD
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Summary

BLACK HAWK DOWN
A NEW YORK TIMES
NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

From acclaimed director Ridley Scott and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer comes a riveting motion picture scripted by Ken Nolan as depicted in this bestselling audiobook by author Mark Bowden. Based on actual events, Black Hawk Down is the heroic account of a group of elite U.S. soldiers sent into Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993 as part of a U.N. peacekeeping operation. Their mission: to capture several top lieutenants of the Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, as part of a strategy to quell the civil war and famine that is ravaging the country.

Young Rangers and veteran Delta Force soldiers fight side by side against overwhelming odds. For eighteen harrowing hours, they remain trapped and wounded in the most hostile district of Mogadishu until a rescue convoy can be mounted to retrieve them. Outnumbered and surrounded, tensions flare, friends are lost, alliances are formed, and soldiers learn the true nature of war and heroism.

Author Biography

Mark Bowden is the author of Black Hawk Down, Bringing the Heat and Doctor Dealer. He has been a reporter at The Philidelphia Inquirer for over twenty years and has won many national awards for his writing. He has also written for Talk, Men's Journal, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and many other magazines.