Dumb rain ruins Jentsy's Saturday plans. Now she's stuck inside with nobody to play with but her dog, Peppy. And he's not even a real person. Too bad her brother's mean and her sister's bossy. But maybe they can be a little fun--like friends?

In this vivid account of the U.S. Army's legendary 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan, Captain Sean Parnell shares an action-packed and highly emotional true story of triumph, tragedy, and the extraordinary bonds forged in battle. At twenty-four years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon-a unit that came to be known as the Outlaws-and was tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a mountain valley along Afghanistan's eastern frontier. Parnell and his men assumed they would be facing a ragtag bunch of civilians, but in May 2006 what started out as a routine patrol through the lower mountains of the Hindu Kush became a brutal ambush. Barely surviving the attack, Parnell's men now realized that they faced the most professional and seasoned force of light infantry the U.S. Army had encountered since the end of World War II. What followed was sixteen months of close combat, over the course of which the platoon became Parnell's family. But the cost of battle was high for these men: over 80 percent were wounded in action, putting their casualty rate among the highest since Gettysburg, and not all of them made it home. A searing and unforgettable story of friendship in battle, "Outlaw Platoon" brings to life the intensity and raw emotion of those sixteen months, showing how the fight reshaped the lives of Parnell and his men and how the love and faith they found in one another ultimately kept them alive.

"Fast, hard, and effortlessly authentic-both lead character Eric Steele and author Sean Parnell are the real deal."-Lee Child"An exciting, action-packed debut! Bristling with intrigue, deceit, power, and treason-once you pick this book up, you will NOT be able to put it down. Sean Parnell has knocked it out of the park!"-Brad Thor The New York Times bestselling author of Outlaw Platoon makes his fiction debut with this electrifying military thriller-a gripping tale of action, suspense, and international intrigue that introduces a compelling new hero, Eric Steele.Eric Steele is the best of the best-an Alpha-an elite clandestine operative assigned to a US intelligence unit known simply as the "Program." A superbly trained Special Forces soldier who served several tours fighting radical Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Steele now operates under the radar, using a deadly combination of espionage and brute strength to root out his enemies and neutralize them.But when a man from Steele's past attacks a military convoy and steals a nuclear weapon, Steele and his superiors at the White House are blindsided. Moving from Washington, DC, to the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, Steele must use his considerable skills to hunt this rogue agent, a former brother-in-arms who might have been a friend, and find the WMD before it can reach the United States-and the world is forever changed.