Eric Blehm is the author of The Last Season, which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for best nonfiction book of 2006 and was a Book Sense bestseller; Outside magazine called it one of the “top ten adventure biographies ever written.” He lives in Southern California.

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Eric Blehm recounts the untold story of the 11 Green Berets who secretly helped the Afghan president fight the Taliban and take back his country.