Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the hidden world of America s covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond Part action film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and underreported stories of our time What begins as a report on a deadly U S night raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special Operations Command JSOC As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC, he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress In military jargon, JSOC teams quot find, fix, and finish quot their targets, who are selected through a secret process No target is off limits for the quot kill list, quot including U S citizens