The Degüello

The A-Team that started a War

By: Scott Zastrow

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

(De-gwail-yo) Music played by the Mexican army bands on the morning of March 6th, 1836, was the signal for Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's attack on the Alamo. The word Degüello signifies the act of beheading or throatcutting and in Spanish history became associated with the battle music, which, in different versions, meant complete destruction of the enemy without mercy.

Based on the incredible true story - Just days after the horrific attacks in New York, a handful of Green Berets from the decorated 5th Special Forces Group were secretly inserted deep behind enemy lines in Northern Afghanistan to set the stage for the upcoming War on Terror. Their mission was to seek out and kill as many Taliban and Al Qaida forces as they could find. Written as a fictional story (to protect the real names of the Operators) of the actual events that transpired for the first Special Forces A-Team into Afghanistan after 9/11. You are right there with them as they infiltrate Afghanistan, attack enemy forces, get ambushed, train the Northern Alliance and move on the capitol city of Kabul. You get a sense of the camaraderie and brotherhood of being on a Special Forces A-Team and how these men train and fight. The reader is brought along from the very beginning and watches the entire story unfold before their eyes from the attacks of September 11th all the way through the dramatic and exciting conclusion of the assault on Kabul. Nothing we know of the War in Afghanistan would be possible had it not been for what these men did. Read how it all began in this exciting, action packed and sometimes humorous account of one our Nation’s most elite Special Operations units. They accomplished what no unit or larger force has ever done before…….. or ever will again.