The briefing room at Bagram airfield smelled like stale coffee and tension. A Navy Seal lieutenant sat across from an Australian SASR patrol…
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January 14th, 1979. A house in Queens, New York. Tommy De Simone walked out his front door, climbed into a car with two…
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