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On the morning of July 2, 2012, in the most dangerous warzone in the world, Lieutenant Clint Lorance took command of his small band of American paratroopers at the spearhead of the American War in Afghanistan. Intelligence reports that morning warned of a Taliban ambush against Lorance's platoon. Fifteen minutes into their patrol, three military-age Afghan males crowded on a motorcycle and sped aggressively down a Taliban-controlled dirt road toward Lorance's men. Three weeks earlier, outside the massive American Kandahar Airfield, Taliban terrorists struck by motorcycle, riding into a crowded area, detonating body-bombs and killing twenty-two people. Sixty-three days before that, three Ohio National Guard soldiers were murdered in another motorcycle-suicide bombing. Suicide-by-motorcycle had become a common Taliban murder-tactic against Americans. Lorance had seconds to react. Either open fire and protect his men, or ignore the speeding motorcycle and pray like hell that his men weren't about to get blown the hell up. In a split-second decision, Lorance ordered his men to fire. When no weapons were found on the Afghan bodies, the Army betrayed one of its finest young officers and prosecuted Lorance for ""murder."" Hiding crucial evidence from the military jury, and ordering his own men to testify against him or face murder charges themselves, they railroaded Lorance into a 20-year prison sentence at Fort Leavenworth, where he remains today. TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE chronicles the true story of the most despicable political prosecution in American military history.

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DON BROWN, A former US Navy JAG officer stationed at the Pentagon and a former Special Assistant US Attorney, is a nationally best-selling author of fourteen books about the US military. Don's 2017 release, THE LAST FIGHTER PILOT - The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II, hit the Publishers Weekly National Bestseller's list the first week of its release, and was endorsed by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. On March 23, 2018, Don was named as one of NEWSMAX'S 25 BEST NONFICTION MILITARY AUTHORS IN THE UNITED STATES. Don lives and practices law in Charlotte, North Carolina, and serves as one of four former military JAG officers on Clint Lorance's legal team, under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel John N. Maher, as lead counsel.

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