A new book written by a member of this community
 

Osama's Angel is a novel that speculates on whether the US, after ten years of preparation, would have decided to kill bin Laden instead of capture him.

The operation is examined in detail and the competitive relationship between Devgru and Delta is highlighted.

Readers from this website will be amused to find one or two characters from here with cameo roles in the story. This site is featured in the Acknowledgement page for its valuable contribution to the content of the book.

As of today, Osama's Angel is available in electronic form, and from next week as a conventional paperback.

Anyone here who reads the book is invited to write an informed criticism of the book either here or on Amazon.

Give this knuckledragger a link. I live by links!

http://www.amazon.com/Osamas-Angel-M...ael+mcwilliams

For an author with several books, there is very little info on the web?? No FB or linkedIn, not even sure there is a picture..

I suspect Michael McWilliams is a nom de gare?

Guy, DO you have any background on this fellow??

Wouldn't that be a nom de plume, in this case? :D

TR

Pay attention and you'll figure out who it is.

Amazon bio: ;)

I bought the Kindle version out of pure curiosity....

Duh,, Slap my butt.. :D

Renewable Energy and Climate Change
same same
Partner in a Carbon Emissions Trading Company

JJ BPK,
He is I.

Thanks Streck,
I will buy you a beer when I come to the States again.

Picked a copy up too.

I look forward to the book and will hold you to the beer. You buy the first, I'll get the rest. Maybe. Sort of.... At least a few, any way. :D

Some people will do anything for a beer.
Thanks Pappa

Got the Kindle version, Mike. ;)

Pat

Thanks Pat,
let us know what you think. If it is really an offensive opinion, best use a PM.

No problems. ;)

Please continue with your summery !!! And when are you going to be doing a book sighing in the US? ;)

I'll buy a signed copy.
Just to let you know, Franklin D. Miller signed his book to me, "If you don't like it, I'll buy it back and kiss your ass".
Can you beat that? And how do I order?

The books are printed in the US and UK and can be ordered from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. For some reason, the UK books are slightly cheaper (taxes?) but US readers will probably lose when postal fees are included. I have yet to get my copies by mail, and the cost to mail them to darkest Africa is more than the cost of the book itself. This means that , with mailing each way, the book becomes as expensive as a first edition Gutenburg bible. Naturally, if its starts to do well in the States, I will get on a plane to do some talks and signings.
As for Franklins warrantee? I can't match that, but send a picture of your ass and I will see what can be done.

I was last in the States in 1981 for the RW World Champs at Z-Hills and am very keen to get back to do a signing or two. My wife visited Virginia last year for an educational seminar and said she enjoyed it even more than in 81. If the book starts to fly, I will also do so. Our currency has collapsed, so it is very expensive to travel overseas nowadays, but earning dollars from the royalties will fix that I hope.

To continue the summary: Delta and DEVGRU are briefed to develop their own plans for a raid. Delta opt for a HAHO delivery because of the historical difficulties helicopters transport has suffered from in almost all Americas raids to date. The SEALs , as we know, opt for the Stealth Blackhawk option, with very predictable outcomes, as it turns out. Delta loses out when military observers evaluate both plans. The reason for this is a Dalta soldier has a psychotic incident during a rehearsal and screws the pooch.

A CIA man, who dates back to the Afghan/Russian war becomes involved in the planning and we become uncertain of his motives when we learn that he not only was instrumental in supplying bin Laden with Stingers during that war, but also dealt in opium to re-finance the Contras after Congress shut that operation down.

The Abbottabad raid goes ahead, but with the intention of capturing bin Laden alive.
Taser shotguns are used to incapacitate him, but he suffers a heart attack because of the shock of two TASER rounds to the head and leg.

Much to the SEALs relief, bin Laden is revived and transported back to Jalalabad and on to Ramstein AFB where he is given a mock court martial and executed by lethal injection.

The execution was a ruse to make bin Laden think he had died and a Muslim trick, many centuries old, is used to dupe him into revealing his plans and comrades in real time to the American interrogators.

As Marco Polo reported about the Old Man of the Mountains and his band of young Hashashins, the ruse is to convince the subject that he has entered paradise.
Using a flight simulator and HD graphics helmet, the supposedly deceased bin Laden is questioned by the Arch Angel Jibril, who is the same as Christianities Gabriel.

Under mild sedatives and mind altering drugs, bin Laden flys on the Angels shoulder over the tribal areas of Pakistan, pointing out those locations he feels need special protection by Jibrils fellow guardian angels.
What bin Laden is actually seeing in his helmet, is a video feed from a drone overflying those badlands. As locations are pointed out by him, they are laser tagged and a following drone disposes of them with missiles.

To be continued. I have a breakfast date with some old comrades.

Osama's Angel summary cont.
 

It should be pointed out that all the incidents mentioned in the book are backed up by reports of actual events that happened within the same timelines.
Naturally, a novelists license is liberally used in mixing fact with imagination, but all in all, the result is a completely believable, and moreover a completely logical explanation of what happened.
The story explains how and why the Chinook carrying a late part of the SEAL contingent that attacked Abbottabad, was shot down shortly after the raid. Where was the information obtained for the rash of attacks on al Qaeda leaders shortly after the raid? How al Shabaab was handed the reins of terror recruitment and execution and the subsequent incidents in Kenya and Somalia. How does the attack on the Medellin Cartel and the attempted execution of Pablo Escobar fit into the global war on terror?
To continue with the story line: Bin Ladens burial at see is a re-enactment of the WWII allied trick of using a corpse to fool the enemy into believing the opposite of what is actually happening. The aptly named Operation Mincemeat, used a tramps body, dressed as a naval officer wash up on the Spanish shore with documents that mislead the German high command as to where and when the invasion of Europe would happen.
In a similar way, the burial at sea of a battlefield corpse, fooled both the US Naval personnel witnessing it, and the world, that bin Laden had indeed been killed. This without having to prove anything to anyone.
This allowed the CIA the time to question bin Laden at their leisure in the Ramstein AFB safe house.
During interrogation, bin Laden reveals a hint of a massive atrocity planned to happen in the very near future. He dies unexpectedly before he can reveal details, but he revealed sufficient for the CIA man to pursue some leads in search of the answer.
The CIA does a deal with the devil, which results in the shooting down of the `Chinook bearing SEALs and we are left with the feeling of impending doom, while we await the al Shabaab atrocity which has something to do with a truckload of ANFO in Staten Island and a shipful of ammonium nitrate out of Haredeere Somalia.

Osama's Angel summary, part the last.
 

At the end of the book, we come a full circle, meeting the Delta soldier who had the self-induced psychotic episode that scotched Delta's chances of conducting the raid. He has since resigned from the Army due to his promotion prospects being reduced to zero. He now works as a shipboard anti-pirate, private security officer on a boat that is hijacked by al Shabaab. He escapes and is the only link who can provide a clue as to what the new threat in the guise of Ali Fahks is.
Ali Fahks is the name of the follow up novel that is being written presently.

Great job, looks well put together and sounds extremely interesting. Will be sure to buy.:lifter

Congratulations on the new book Mike!

Thanks Liam. We need to have a cold one sometime.

Definitely, its been a while.

Thanks to this site's members
 

Sales of Osama's Angel are doing well out of the States and members of this site can be thanked for contributing. Again, following the sales of my first book, The Battle for Cassinga, most of the sales from the USA come out of Washington. As your politicians do not seem to be too well read,I must assume that there is something else afoot.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what it may be.

Just bought your book Mike. Looking forward to reading it.

I just bought the kindle version.

How many beers is it to buy a copy? I need to rephrase that, how many beers will you buy each of us if we buy a copy. Hold it, second rephrase.... How many beers to each of us if we buy individual copies?



Oh hell.... If you buy me a beer, i'll get a kindle version, 3 beers for a hardback.:p

So far the synopsis sounds interesting.

Hell, you know a mans weak points, don't you?
If I am drinking beer alongside you, and you like Guinness, I am prone to buying them all night, and bugger the book.

Looking forward to your review Liam. Thanks and hope you enjoy.

Thanks Hand. Hope it was worth the effort.

First shipment of books arrived today from the USA. Exactly one month by Fedex.
Not bad at all by African standards. We still await parcels from China ordered in August last year.

Bought the kindle version yesterday. The Mefloquin debate seemed familiar.:D

I've enjoyed what I've read so far. Well done, Guymullins.

Thanks Barbarian, there are similarities aren't there? I hope you enjoy the remainder
of the read. It was written with military tastes in mind, so any endorsements from quarters like this are doubly encouraging. You will see more of Larium Larry in the sequel which should be out in a couple of months.

Great read so far!
 

I am about half way through the book. I have greatly enjoyed it so far. The level of detail surrounding each detail has been interesting and informative.

I've also enjoyed running across snippets of what I believe are either specific to your region or odd translations, "wind cheater" being one of them. :)

I'll report back when I finish the book.

Hand, a wind cheater or just cheater is a windbreaker in US parlance.

i stand corrected sf med, thank you.