CONTENTS

Prologue: Stairwell to Nowhere

PART I

Chapter 1 REFLECTION OF THE DAMNED

Chapter 2 THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE

Chapter 3 MOP-UP CREW

Chapter 4 DIAGNOSIS

Chapter 5 A MIND AT WAR

Chapter 6 BEAUFORT

Chapter 7 DRUG TRIP

Chapter 8 THE LAST MEDAL

Chapter 9 TEN-STEP KILL ZONE

Chapter 10 BREAK CONTACT

PART II

Chapter 11 LINK BY LINK

Chapter 12 DISCONNECT

Chapter 13 EIGHT-THOUSAND-MILE SNIPER SHOT

Chapter 14 THE GHOST OF IRA HAYES

Chapter 15 A MOMENT IN THE TROUGH

Chapter 16 LOST MOMENT

PART III

Chapter 17 RETURN TO THE ISLAND

Chapter 18 BROTHERS

Chapter 19 BLEEDING LOVE

Chapter 20 THE DARK SIDE OF THE BROTHERHOOD

PART IV

Chapter 21 THE WRONG FIGHT

Chapter 22 BOOTSTRAPS

Chapter 23 SCORCHED EARTH

Chapter 24 HUMAN BOMB

Chapter 25 FIELD-GRADE HERO

Chapter 26 OBLITERATION

Chapter 27 CRATERSCAPE

Chapter 28 BATTLEFIELD REQUIEM

Chapter 29 OCTOBER DAWN

Chapter 30 RECONSTRUCTION

Chapter 31 GENERATIONS

Chapter 32 SETBACKS

Chapter 33 NO HIGHER HONOR

Chapter 34 FEBRUARY 21, 2007

Epilogue: The Shadow War

Final Notes: Fall 2008

Acknowledgments