Mark Bowden Books

From "a master of narrative journalism" (New York Times Book Review), the bestselling history of the biggest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War

When you are selling, the way you deliver your message will matter as much as, or more than, what you actually say. In this book, the authors reveal nonverbal communication skills guaranteed to give you the advantage in every sales situation. It reveals the universal body language signals that command respect and teaches you how to use them.

This book offers the best of Bowden's award-winning nonfiction, from his breakout stories for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a reporter for twenty-four years, to his significant pieces in The Atlantic on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. From activists fighting black rhino poachers in Zambia, to interrogation of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, to the world of Saddam Hussein, to the private and public lives of unique, fascinating Americans such as Al Sharpton and Norman Mailer, reporter Bowden is capable of putting us in the heat of a story in a way few others can.--Publisher.

From "a master of narrative journalism" (New York Times Book Review), a riveting history of the biggest and bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War

From the best-selling author of Black Hawk Down comes a definitive account of the Iran hostage crisis during which fifty-two Americans were held hostage in the Tehran embassy for 444 days, offering insights into the event from the perspective of the hostages, soldiers sent to free them, the radical captors, and diplomats trying to end the crisis. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

Bestselling author Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offering an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader.

Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of the Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage, a reign of terror that would end only with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes the never-before-revealed details.

Finding Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, was a top priority for the U.S. military, even more so than capturing Osama bin Laden. Brutal tactics were employed to extract intelligence from Zarqawi's associates, but these efforts yielded no results. Following the Abu Ghraib scandal, the military introduced a new approach to interrogation. Matthew Alexander, a former criminal investigator leading a specialized team, provides an insider's view of this shift toward more humane interrogation techniques and their remarkable success. The intelligence that led to the June 7, 2006, airstrike on Zarqawi's safe house stemmed from well-planned interrogations that avoided torture and coercive methods. Instead, Matthew and his team focused on understanding their subjects: their motivations, affiliations, and what they sought to protect. Each day, they engaged with a diverse array of suspects, from egomaniacs to horrified clerics, using negotiation and psychological tactics to great effect. However, Matthew's dedication to these methods sometimes put him at odds with his superiors and jeopardized his career. This gripping narrative transcends a typical war memoir, serving as a reminder that we need not adopt our enemy's methods to defeat them. Matthew's adaptive strategies have proven to be vital in the fight against global terrorism.

Veteran journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague offer a week-by-week, state-by-state account of the effort to overturn the 2020 US presidential election.

Doctor Dealer is the story of Larry Lavin, a bright, charismatic young man who rose from his working-class upbringing to win a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, earn Ivy League college and dental degrees, and buy his family a house in one of Philadelphia's most exclusive suburbs. But behind the facade of his success was a dark secret -- at every step of the way he was building the foundation for a cocaine empire that would grow to generate over $60 million in annual sales. Award-winning journalist Mark Bowden tells the saga of Lavin's rise and fall with the gripping, novelistic narrative style that won him international acclaim as the author of the New York Times best-seller Black Hawk Down. "Immensely readable . . . eye-popping . . . a smoothly crafted, exciting, can't-put-it-down book." -- Louisville New Voice