Synopsis

In 2020, two bodies were discovered in the woods at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, America's largest military base. One victim was William "Billy" Lavigne, a Delta Force operator who had participated in more than a dozen classified deployments as part of the military's secretive assassination program. Despite his elite status, Lavigne was addicted to crack cocaine, dealt drugs on base, and had committed multiple violent crimes before his mysterious death. The other victim, Timothy Dumas, was a Special Forces supply officer who exploited his access to clandestine operations to steal weapons and traffic drugs from abroad, and had written a blackmail letter threatening to expose criminal activity within the special operations task force in Afghanistan. Iraq war veteran and investigative journalist Seth Harp quickly discovers that these aren't isolated incidents. Fort Bragg has experienced a disturbing pattern of unexplained deaths, all seemingly connected to drug trafficking, along with dozens of fatal overdoses. Through meticulous research including trial transcripts, police records, and hundreds of interviews, Harp uncovers a shocking story of narco-trafficking within Special Forces, police corruption, systematic military cover-ups, American involvement in the Afghan heroin trade, and the dangerous consequences of perpetual warfare and impunity among elite soldiers.