Acknowledgments

Thank you to Tyler Vanover for teaching me everything I know about hotshots.

  

To Andrew Thomure for teaching me everything I know about the FBI.

  

To Christie Kersnick for teaching me everything I know about the Marines. You, my friend, were a badass then, and everything you’ve overcome since makes you a badass now!

  

Also a big thanks to Robert Madson for answering late-night questions about rank, military slang, and filling in the blanks.