"Private Eli Recato's fellow soldiers call him 'Bloodhound,' but Eli isn't fond of the nickname. He isn't fond of his self-appointed best buddy, Private Bader, either. What he is fond of is saving lives by sniffing out IEDs in Afghanistan and disabling them. But when a bomb finds him, Eli is faced with a difficult choice: hide with an Afghan man he's never met before, or hightail it out of insurgent territory without a weapon"--Publisher.