No Way Out

A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan

By: Mitch Weiss, Kevin Maurer

Narrated by: Corey M. Snow

In a remote enemy-held valley in Afghanistan, a Special Forces team planned to scale a steep mountain to surprise and capture a terrorist leader. But before they found the target, the target found them. The team was caught in a deadly ambush that threatened not only their lives but the entire mission.

The elite soldiers fought huddled for hours on a small rock ledge as rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine-gun fire rained down on them. With total disregard for their own safety, they tended to their wounded and kept fighting to stay alive. When the battle finally ended, 10 soldiers had earned Silver Stars - the army's third highest award for combat valor. It was the most Silver Stars awarded to any unit in one battle since Vietnam.

Based on dozens of interviews with those who were there, No Way Out is a compelling narrative of an epic battle that not only tested the soldiers' mettle but serves as a cautionary tale. Be careful what you ask soldiers to do, because they will die trying to accomplish their mission.

©2012 Mitch Weiss and Kevin Maurer (P)2017 Tantor

Excellent book for historical warfare!

The detailed content made me feel like I was there! Incredible story of heroism!! Weiss and Maurer seek to tell the full story of what happened on April 6, 2008. They do well to paint the whole picture, warts and all. This is a fantastic book.

Good book.

I've read.other military stories. and they all.have their unique story and descriptions. This book eas.a.little more to.the point. What I mean by this is sometimes I have read other Military stories and they get really deep into Military. lingo or talking about various people before getting to the nitty gritty and this one was just more getting to.the point of what happened. I like that. I understand every author has his own style explaining military lingo or describing each persons history growing up.exct... but sometimes there is too much of that before getting to the actual story of what happened. This book I liked because the author kind of just got the story of what happened. I recommend it.

Great book

This book was well put together and well narrated as a former military myself, this book brought tears to my eyes.

Started slow, then was great

You have to just get through the first part. The second half of this book is riveting. I highly recommend reading this.

Great story!!

It’s humbling to read the lengths our military will go to do the right thing for the right reasons.

very good story

was just a bit hard to follow at times as chapters were from each of the soldiers perspectives. I would still highly recommend.

Great Book!

My cousin is the Master Sergeant in this book and it was written well and narrated well!!

Great story but reading performance not so good

The story is good but the reading performance was robotic with no real emotion or accents it was hard to listen to and I wish I listened to the sample before getting the book

A story of heroes

I loved the whole story! Our military men and women are all heroes and need to be remembered for their sacrifices

No better truth.

This book is done well. You get a great true story that civilians will not understand or believe. But for the few that know will know.