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On the moonless nighttime just weeks after Sept 11, 2001, U.S. Special Forces team ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a relatively impossible mission: to foment a tribal revolt and drive the Taliban to surrender. Armed solely with the equipment they can carry on their backs, shockingly scant intelligence, and their mastery of guerrilla warfare, Captain Jason Amerine and his men have no choice but to trust their only ally: a little-known Pashtun statesman named Hamid Karzai who may have returned from exile and is being hunted by the Taliban as he moves the countryside raising a militia. The Only Thing Price Dying For chronicles the main mission in the early times of the Global Warfare on Terror, when the men on the ground realized little about the adversary - and their commanders in Washington realized even less. With unprecedented usage of surviving customers of ODA 574, key conflict organizers, and Karzai himself, award-winning author Eric Blehm cuts through the noises of politicians and high-level military representatives to narrate, for the very first time, a tale of uncommon bravery and dreadful sacrifice, intimately revealing the realities of unconventional warfare and nation-building in Afghanistan that continue to shape the spot today.
