Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-344) and index.

I Kill People for a Living
They Do What They Want
Fayettenam
Don’t Call Me Your Husband
Pipe Hitters
The Killing Fest
Alleged Mexican White
The Northern Distribution Network
Rise and Kill First
Cover Girls
Warehouse 13
He Was Seeing Bad Things
You Can’t Make This Shit Up
That Man Worked for the Cartel
Freddie Had Everything Under Control
Until Valhalla
The Thumb Drive
Acid Is Life
Evidence of Absence
Roid Rage
Withdrawal Symptoms
Permanent War
Fort Liberty
The Third Man
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

"In December 2020, a deer hunter discovered two dead bodies that had been riddled with bullets and dumped in a forested corner of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the dead men, Master Sergeant William "Billy" Lavigne, was a member of Delta Force, the most secretive "black ops" unit in the military. A deeply traumatized veteran of America's classified assassination program, Lavigne had done more than a dozen deployments in his lengthy career, was addicted to crack cocaine, dealt drugs on base, and had committed a series of violent crimes before he was mysteriously killed. The other victim, Chief Warrant Officer Timothy Dumas, was a quartermaster attached to the Special Forces who used his proximity to clandestine missions to steal guns and traffic drugs into the United States from abroad, and had written a blackmail letter threatening to expose criminality in the special operations task force in Afghanistan. As soon as Seth Harp, an Iraq war veteran and investigative reporter, begins looking into the double murder, he learns that there have been many more unexplained deaths at Fort Bragg recently, other murders connected to drug trafficking in elite units, and dozens of fatal overdoses. Drawing on declassified documents, trial transcripts, police records, and hundreds of interviews, Harp tells a scathing story of narco-trafficking in the Special Forces, drug conspiracies abetted by corrupt police, blatant military cover-ups, American complicity in the Afghan heroin trade, and the pernicious consequences of continuous war."-- Publisher's website