Season 2, Episode 21 - Kevin Mauer (ABOUT THE AUTHORS TV)

A reporter’s job by definition is to get the story; a war zone correspondent’s is to stay alive while reporting, and after 10 years covering the Middle East in Iraq and Afghanistan, when award winning journalist and author Kevin Maurer got the call to co-write NO EASY DAY: The First Hand Account of the Mission That Killed OSAMA BIN LADEN, Navy Seal Mark Owen knew he was the man for the job.  The # 1 New York Times best-seller that followed laid the story out for the world for the first time, and Mauer before and since has made his life’s work helping real-life war heroes from WWII, Viet Nam, Korea and the Millennium Middle East stories put the stories of their real life battles on the page for the first time in best-sellers like Gentlemen Bastards: On the Ground in Afghanistan with America’s Elite Special Forces, No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan with Mitch Weiss, Lions of Kandahar: The Story of a Fight Against All Odds with Rusty Bradley, Hunting Che: How a U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World’s Most Famous Revolutionary, Valleys of Death: A Memoir of the Korean War with Bill Richardson, and Rock Force: The American Paratroopers Who Took Back Corregidor and Exacted MacArthur’s Revenge on Japan.