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The Fort Bragg cartel : drug trafficking and murder in the Special Forces / Seth Harp.
"A groundbreaking investigation into a string of unsolved murders at America's premier special operations base, and what the crimes reveal about drug trafficking and impunity among elite soldiers"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593655085 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Portions of this work originally appeared, in different form, in articles published in Rolling Stone"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Drug traffic > North Carolina > Fort Bragg. Military bases > North Carolina > Fort Bragg. Murder > North Carolina > Fort Bragg. |
| Genre: | True crime stories. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 364.1336509756373 Har | 31681010440782 | NONFIC | In process | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"A groundbreaking investigation into a string of unsolved murders at America's premier special operations base, and what the crimes reveal about drug trafficking and impunity among elite soldiers"-- Provided by publisher. - Baker & Taylor
Examines a double murder at Fort Bragg, uncovering a web of drug trafficking, corruption, and cover-ups within elite U.S. Special Forces units, revealing how addiction, criminal networks, and the fallout of endless war have destabilized the militaryâs most secretive operations. Illustrations. - Penguin Putnam
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
âProbably the most gripping, memorable, eye-opening book Iâve read in months.â âDavid Wallace-Wells, The New York Times
âPropulsive.â âThe Washington Post
âEngrossing. . . . Truly shocking.â âThe New Republic
âThe Fort Bragg Cartel opens like a nonfiction thriller and never lets up. A page-turning investigation into the dark side of our forever wars.â
âSteve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S
A groundbreaking investigation into a string of unsolved murders at Americaâs premier special operations base, and what the crimes reveal about drug trafficking and impunity among elite soldiers in todayâs military
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 âBillyâ Lavigne, was a member of Delta Force, the most secretive âblack opsâ unit in the military. A deeply traumatized veteran of Americaâs 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.
