I was mostly curious as to why someone felt the need to make a graphic novel out of the raid and assassination of Osama Bin Laden. Then again, I am still wondering why we made movies out of Flight 93, or Nicolas Cage in World Trade Center.
This book is a play-by-play of the take down of Osama Bin Laden. There are no background details or side stories, you don't learn about the players on the special forces teams. If you like military jargon and want just the facts, or you are interested in what a military operation looks like, then this is the book for you. The illustrations are in full color and not to gory even those there are several shootouts. There is not much dialog and its all military speak, for example here is dialog from a random page, "Stalkers Heavies, Point Zulu. Go to Stand-by Orbit. No Lights, No Comms."
There was a nice few essays at the end of the book that gave a little more information about the political situation that we were in. It addresses the controversy of using the codeword "Geronimo" for the mission and explains that it was not being used to compare Bin Laden to Geronimo, but was used to designate the 7th or "G" phase of the mission to find and eliminate bin Laden. There is also a little background on bin Laden's life and activities and an essay on why this mission was important and necessary.
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