The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
This is a groundbreaking investigation into a string of unsolved U.S. murders at America’s premier special operations base and what these crimes reveal about American drug trafficking with impunity among elite soldiers in today’s U.S. military.
Author Seth Harp and narrator Dan John Miller have 4.2 out of 5 stars with 439 ratings. This true story is the #1 Best Seller in American Military History.
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 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 author 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.
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: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to Sept. 10, 2001 and Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
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