Everybody likes a celebratory parade. Nobody likes a funeral procession.
John McNeil is thrust into untenable circumstances and tasked with making life-and-death decisions when he is reassigned from Baghdad to a British base in Basra. He is embedded with American Green Berets and is forced to evolve and adapt or be doomed to continue futile, daily reinvention of the wheel.
He finds that hunting for hostages and their kidnappers in a war zone is multifaceted and complex and that “ground-truth” realities and complicated operational nuances are easily lost.
Just Kill the Hostages is a fictionalized account of a world known only to insiders with raised-level government clearance. The characters are based on real-world operators in dangerous environments; and the unpolished realities of how government work gets done in a war zone form a story you won’t soon forget.