The Fort
Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces Hardcover – 12
Aug. 2025
English
edition by Seth Harp (Author)
“Propulsive.”
—The Washington Post
“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 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 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.
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