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Mark Owen starred in the SEAL Team Six mission that killed Osama bin Laden, and later recounted it, with extraordinary success, in A Hard Day. This new book of yours, There Are No Heroes, immerses us in the experience of new forms of warfare: of special operations planned based on information from unmanned "drones", carried out in rapid deployments, of an intensity that only it can be endured with extraordinary training. Its protagonists are not heroes, but men who have received special training and who have learned to act as a team. Owen does not intend to narrate war exploits, but rather to bring us closer to the intimate experience of the combatants, their struggles and personal difficulties. The stories he offers us of the actions experienced by him and by his team have a truth and a force that has rarely been seen in war literature. A truth that explains why the US government has hijacked this book and has imposed some cuts.