The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Propulsive.” — The Washington Post “Engrossing. . . . Truly shocking.” — The New Republic “The Fort Bragg Cartel opens like a nonfiction thriller and never lets up. A page-turning investigation into the dark side of our forever wars.” —Steve Coll Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and Directorate S 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 in today’s 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 “Billy” Lavigne was a member of Delta Force the most secretive “black ops” unit in the military. A deeply traumatized veteran of America’s classifi