With all the press being generated by the controversy surrounding a late addition to the Dutton list, an eyewitness account of the killing of Osama Bin Laden, No Easy Day, by pseudonymous Navy SEAL Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer, the publisher moved the pub date up a month to September 11 and the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Despite the media spotlight on Owen’s memoir, which has held the number one slot in books at Amazon for several days, Atlantic Monthly Press is holding firm to its October 16 on-sale date for its own account of the al Qaeda leader’s death, Mark Bowden’s The Finish, which is shaping up to be one of the fall’s big books.
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