Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States went on a war footing from which it has not fully stepped down in the two decades since. In the eleventh book of their bestselling series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers inside the global war on terror with the depth of sourcing and narrative momentum that has defined every book in the Killing franchise. Killing the Killers moves across the full geography of the conflict, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Libya, following the American effort to dismantle Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard not just at the operational level but through the targeting and elimination of the men who led them. The book traces the evolution of America's approach to counterterrorism: the intelligence failures, the tactical breakthroughs, the drone strikes and special operations raids, and the persistent difficulty of fighting an enemy willing to destroy entire nations in the pursuit of power. O'Reilly and Dugard ground the strategic picture in the stories of the individuals who fought this war, soldiers, intelligence officers, and the commanders who ordered them into the most dangerous places on earth. The result is the most comprehensive and immediate account of the war on terror yet produced in the Killing series.