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A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter uncovers the story of the shocking rise and fall of Eddie Gallagher, a decorated Navy SEAL accused of war crimes, the fellow SEALs who turned him in, and the court martial that captivated the nation.After nearly twenty years of military service, Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher had risen in the elite command teams to the rank of chief petty officer. He was trained as a medic, a sniper, and an explosives expert, and was considered elite at every specialty. SEALs who served with him often described him using one word that, in civilian circles, might signal caution, but in the SEAL teams is a term of universal admiration. He was, they said, "aggressive."Gallagher's trademark aggression would culminate in the death of an unnamed ISIS fighter one bright May morning in 2017. Several men in Alpha platoon swore they saw their platoon chief murder the captive in cold blood that morning with a custom hunting knife. Others said they saw no such thing. Most agreed, however, that something in Gallagher had snapped. The revelations that followed when his fellow SEALs turned him in--drug use, stealing from fellow soldiers, murder of civilians--would result in a court martial that divided his platoon, then the SEALs, the Navy, the Pentagon, the White House, and ultimately the American public. This is a story about a soldier who was inspired to serve his nation, who became addicted to combat, and whose need to prove himself among his peers pushed him to extremes--and about the handful of soldiers who decided that upholding their moral code was more important than perpetuating an insider's code of silence. But it is also a starkly modern story--one that reveals how pop culture and social media shaped who Gallagher was and how he acted, and how the persona he created ultimately found an ally in the America's first reality television president, Donald Trump.Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent David Philipps draws from his exclusive sources to craft an unflinching tale of bravado, betrayal, and manufactured redemption. His expert reporting uncovers what really happened that fateful morning in Iraq and takes an unyielding look at not only what it means to be a modern soldier, but what it means to be a modern American.