THE FORT BRAGG CARTEL by Seth Harp (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)

THE FORT BRAGG CARTEL by Seth Harp (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)
Author: Seth Harp
Narrator: Dan John Miller
Release Date: August 12, 2025
Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
Genre: Nonfiction, True Crime, Military History

The Fort Bragg Cartel is an investigative exposé by journalist Seth Harp, uncovering drug trafficking, murders, and corruption within elite U.S. Special Forces units at Fort Bragg, America's largest military base. Drawing from declassified documents, trial records, and hundreds of interviews, Harp, an Iraq War veteran, traces how soldiers trained for counter-narcotics missions abroad became entangled in smuggling cocaine, heroin, and guns, often linked to Mexican cartels like Los Zetas, while highlighting military cover-ups and the fallout from endless wars.

The book opens with the 2020 unsolved double murder of Delta Force operator Master Sergeant William "Billy" Lavigne—a crack-addicted veteran with a history of violence—and Special Forces quartermaster Timothy Dumas, who had threatened to expose drug rings in Afghanistan. Harp expands this into a broader narrative of over a dozen drug-related arrests, unexplained deaths, and overdoses at Fort Bragg, critiquing U.S. complicity in Afghanistan's heroin trade, corrupt alliances with warlords, and the evolution of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) into a secretive force prone to impunity. Through propulsive storytelling, it calls for accountability in the military's "forever wars," blending true crime with analysis of systemic failures in special operations.