Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command

After just six months in the violent province of Wardak, Afghanistan, a third of Captain Roger Hill’s unit, Dog Company, 1-506th, had been wounded in battle. Then two soldiers are killed on a routine patrol. Hill soon learns why he is losing so many men: Working with an Army counterintelligence team, he busts a dozen enemy infiltrators—spies working on his base, collecting American paychecks while also passing secrets to the Taliban.

Hill orders the infiltrators detained, but the rules of engagement tie his hands. If he cannot transfer the spies who killed and maimed more than two dozen of his men to a higher level of detention within 96 hours, he will be forced to set them free.

Hill, a West Point grad and decorated combat veteran, was a rising young officer who had always followed the letter of military law. Now, however, abandoned by his high command, he suddenly faces an excruciating choice: Follow Army rules on prisoner treatment, or damn the rules to his own destruction and protect the men he’s grown to love.