Black Hawk Down - Film Tie-In by Mark Bowden, ISBN 9780552999656

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A Thrilling and Visceral, No-Holds-Barred Classic of Modern War.

Late in the afternoon of Sunday, 3 October 1993, 140 elite US soldiers abseiled from helicopters into a teeming market neighbourhood in the heart of the city of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour.

Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night in a hostile city, fighting for their lives against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. When the unit was rescued the following morning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and more than seventy badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse - more than five hundred killed and over a thousand injured.

Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, 'Black Hawk Down' is a heart-stopping, minute-by-minute account of modern war and is destined to become a classic of war reporting. Now a major motion picture from acclaimed director Ridley Scott and renowned producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Stars Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Jason Isaacs and Tom Sizemore.

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About the Author: Mark Bowden

Mark Bowden is the author of the bestselling books Guests of The Ayatollah, Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo. He is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, and an occasional contributor to National Public Radio.

Black Hawk Down was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award, and Killing Pablo received the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award for the best book of 2001. Bowden worked as a consultant and screenwriter on the film version of Black Hawk Down. He is currently adapting Killing Pablo for the screen and is writing an original screenplay for Imagine Entertainment.

He has also written for The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated and The New York Times and The Rolling Stones among other publications. He is a former staff writer and columnist for The Inquirer. Bowden teaches journalism and creative writing at his alma mater, Loyola College of Maryland.

He currently lives in Oxford, Pennsylvania. His son, Aaron, is also a writer.

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