"This novel is written by a retiring White House appointee to the
Department of Defense for the last twenty-one years. A former
USAR NCO with various skills and degrees, I was first appointed
to the Kosovo Task Force by the Clinton Administration then set
free to "find them things" as a freelance intelligence gatherer. As my
skills developed, I was able to not only find them things, but also give
assessment and thought to military and covert operations.
I wrote about the bin Laden raid (Operation: Neptune Seal) in
Abbottsbad, six months prior to it happening in the spring of 2011.
That in a reply to a public request by CEN COMM Commander
General Petreaus for more covert operations in the region. In my military
opinion, it was a "viable military operation with a treasure trove
of intelligence to be had." I will not claim to have the original idea for
the raid. Others have that. But I had about 40% of the raid's key elements
defined in the report. I did confirm to both the White House
and the Joint Chiefs that it could be a very successful raid. But I saw
it as a ranger raid of battilion size, not the small SEAL team raid."